Throughout history, this medieval hamlet has remained relatively secluded from the outside world. But now, the world's steepest cable car whisks travellers to the 430-person village.
  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    1·
    4 hours ago

    aww … “The cableway replaced a funicular, on the same route, in 2010.” … cable car is probably better choice but the funicular was just plain fun

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    11 hours ago

    There are a few of these places in switzerland iirc. I went hiking around a glacier a couple years ago and there they just banned private cars in addition to it being almost impossible to get one up there. There were electric mini busses and shuttles for all residents and visitors. All technical workers (like plumbers and gardeners) had their own or shared versions of these shuttles with little trailers on them to carry tools.

    • ifalas@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 hours ago

      They are technically trains*, if you don’t want to consider them their own thing. There are plenty of languages where the name doesn’t contain “car” if that’s your metric.

      *or elevators I guess

      • djsaskdja@reddthat.comEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        I was just joking but yeah maybe we need a different name for them in English. Wikipedia says Cable Tram? That works seems a bit awkward to me though.

        • Halasham@dormi.zone
          1·
          4 hours ago

          How 'bout just ‘Tram’ for the on ground on and ‘Air Tram’ for the suspended ones? This making Motor Tram the non-cable variant.