On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, D7666 wrote:

On Aug 26, 9:12 am, "John Rowland"
wrote:

OK I see what you mean.

Chatham because of the Medway

But surely even then the schebebahn runs *along* the course of the
river but cablecars tend to go across things ?

Cablecars tend to go *up* things. Are there any that are built in the
complete absence of a steep slope? By 'complete absence', i mean without a
slope anywhere along; Barcelona's, for example, is on the level between
the foot of Montjuic and the port, but it's there because there's a big
slope from the foot of Montjuic to the top of Montjuic.

Anyway, my reading was that John was being somewhat silly. A cable-car is
a ludicrous thing to build in Chatham, so it seems fit that the
justification for it is also ludicrous.

tom

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