Transportation
Chicago Catches Gondola Fever
What could go wrong with a proposal for a tourist-friendly cable car in the Windy City? The wind, for one.
Nothing feels as unpleasant as Chicago’s winter blasting your face in full freeze mode. A plan that involved suspending residents 17 stories up in the air in the howling wind could be rightly described as criminal. A gondola for Chicago? Attempted murder.
Chicago may go for one anyway. The Chicago Tribune reports that two local businessmen are pitching the city on “The Skyline,” a gondola that would run over the Chicago River. The city joins Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. in the elite club of U.S. metropolises flirting with a gondola.