A setup like this actually is pretty common in and around Austria (where you can go skiing). You have the big cable car with a cabinet, which runs the whole year (in the winter for skiing and in the summer for biking, wandering and so on). It normally brings you on top of a mountain or pretty near the top. From there you can do all the activities (summer or winter). Summer activities usually include going up or down a mountain once and getting back with a cable car (if you use one at all). Some people also use the cable car in both directions, but this normally is only the case for lame tourists, who only want to be on a mountain, just to take a picture. When you are going skiing, you can go down a hill pretty fast, so you might want to do it multiple times a day. That is where the smaller, normally open cable cars play a role. They sometimes bring you even further up the mountain or they bring you up the mountain from different heights. Otherwise the big cable car would need many middle stations, which costs too much and also raises the risk of a full stop of the cable car, because some tourists are even too stupid to properly get out of there. Maybe I also should add, that you normally can’t go down the hill with the small cable cars, because you only use them, if you are skiing and you are expected to go down by yourself. The big cable car (if it is only one) normally is in the middle of an skiing-area. You normally have routs for skiing, that not only go around the main cable car, so the smaller ones also help to make the area wider, more spread to the left and to the right of the main cable car. And I should also mention, that different heights off a mountain make a route often differently hard to ski there. The routes all the way down to the bottom of a mountain usually are very difficult for example, whereas the routes around the top-station of the big cable car are usually easier. So the small cable cars are also there, to allow beginners to only take easy routes.
@@benolifts I am so sorry, but I don't know any way to get to Austria for cheap. Cable cars in the winter probably aren't cheap either, because you pay for the snow canons there, which probably don't get used less in the upcoming years for obvious reasons. In the summer it should. be a bit better, but I am not sure. A good place probably is a smaller, less known ski area. I personally can recommend the Ratschings-Jaufen ski area. It is in Italy, near Sterzing, but I am not so sure, if it is really cheap, if you compare it to other areas.
Disney World uses this same model on their new Skyliner system but with the maximum number of cars. It’s generally very efficient, but sometimes does stop from people not choosing the correct line and not being able to hop on the ones that do not stop.
I live in austria and they are pretty common there. But doing like a cable car tour is not worth it because most of them are only open during winter. And to even get on them you have to pay a ticket or something most of the times.
For the ones that are 'not working', they're almost certainly fine. It's just that they're only for skiers and snowboarders, as they can ski off the lift. As it's not ski season, they won't be open as it'll be pretty hard for normal people to use those lifts as they can't slide across the ground. It's also not particularly busy so why waste energy by running lifts people aren't going to be using much?
To be honest, I have completely lost interest in small scale English towns and cities. Years ago I would search around towns to find every lift in the town. But in the present day I have lost the inspiration to do this. All of the old lifts have been replaced. And all of the newly built lifts are either base models (gen2, 3300, NMX07, etc) which are all identical, or are generic lifts (Lester, ThamesValley, etc). There are no quirky interesting lifts, and there are no high quality heavy duty top of the range lifts in small towns anymore. The current attitude is to buy the cheapest lifts, and by the time they need replacing it will be someone else's problem. This has kind of made me lose interest, plus I have travelled the world and seen so much interesting stuff, I just find it hard to get enjoyment from an English town.
@@timbauer5541 Austria seems to have a lot of cable cars. But I wonder what the cost effective way of seeing them is. I would also like to visit Liechtenstein, but there seems to be no cheap way of getting there.
In Toulouse we now have a cable car with huge cabins, 20 seats + 14 standing (total 34!!!).The cable car is 3km long and passes over a hill and has an intermediate station. Awesome €100M toy, I love it but I think its useless, it goes nowhere. You can take it with a normal ticket(€1.80)
London's Doppelmayr is in the wrong place. It goes between destinations that very few people would want to go between. Plus it is not included on the travel card, which ultimately means that very few people use it. Boris lied claiming that non-tourists would use it, when FOI revealed that in the first year only 4 season ticket commuters used it, and as far as I know this has since dropped to zero season tickets. So commuters don't want it, and tourists are not as interested in it compared to if it had been built in a tourist area. So the entire thing has pretty much not justified its build cost. It was Boris's vanity project. Just like is other waste on money vanity projects, such as his buses that are overly heavy and the engine charges the batteries at the wrong time, leading to the batteries using up their designed charging cycles far too quickly, as well as not really saving any fuel. And now the all door boarding has been changed to single door boarding. This means all of Boris's features he wanted have failed, so all that is left is an overly heavy and slow bus, that doesn't do anything special or better than any other bus.
Just a quick thought about what I see here. Perhaps it's something to do with a scarily highly functional CCTV/ID card/Big Brother society; or Perhaps it's an endearingly old fashioned and law-abiding land; or Perhaps we should have a word with ourselves because: I'm struck by the expensive, efficient, endlessly repeating system with its uncountable supply of clean, crisp and empty gondolas. There seems to be nobody securing them, no other passengers to keep an eye on any wayward yoof and no end of opportunity to do them damage, should someone so wish. How so? How can the rest of the planet's populations copy parts of this idyl? Is it an idyl, or is it perfectly pristine on the surface but just underneath is a quivering mass of oppressed masses?
I don't think health and safety is anywhere near as strict in Croatia compared to the UK. One thing I noticed is that the cabins started engaging the fast cable as soon as the door shut. I really wanted to stick my foot in the door and see what happens. Would the entire cable car shut down, or would it have carried on regardless. Also, with how quick it accelerates to the cable, and how long it would take to bring the cable to a stop, I wonder if the cabin would have exceeded to station before it stopped. I regret not testing this. If someone had got stuck in the doors, the cabin would have have started hurtling out the station before the system had time to emergency stop. On Boris's Doppelmayr in London, there is a some distance from when the doors shut before the cable starts engaging.
it seems like the cable cars that aren't running might only be used during the winter for skiers.
A setup like this actually is pretty common in and around Austria (where you can go skiing). You have the big cable car with a cabinet, which runs the whole year (in the winter for skiing and in the summer for biking, wandering and so on). It normally brings you on top of a mountain or pretty near the top. From there you can do all the activities (summer or winter). Summer activities usually include going up or down a mountain once and getting back with a cable car (if you use one at all). Some people also use the cable car in both directions, but this normally is only the case for lame tourists, who only want to be on a mountain, just to take a picture. When you are going skiing, you can go down a hill pretty fast, so you might want to do it multiple times a day. That is where the smaller, normally open cable cars play a role. They sometimes bring you even further up the mountain or they bring you up the mountain from different heights. Otherwise the big cable car would need many middle stations, which costs too much and also raises the risk of a full stop of the cable car, because some tourists are even too stupid to properly get out of there. Maybe I also should add, that you normally can’t go down the hill with the small cable cars, because you only use them, if you are skiing and you are expected to go down by yourself. The big cable car (if it is only one) normally is in the middle of an skiing-area. You normally have routs for skiing, that not only go around the main cable car, so the smaller ones also help to make the area wider, more spread to the left and to the right of the main cable car. And I should also mention, that different heights off a mountain make a route often differently hard to ski there. The routes all the way down to the bottom of a mountain usually are very difficult for example, whereas the routes around the top-station of the big cable car are usually easier. So the small cable cars are also there, to allow beginners to only take easy routes.
Do you know any in Austria where it is cheap to travel to from a Ryan air airport, as well as the ticket for the cable car being cheap?
@@benolifts I am so sorry, but I don't know any way to get to Austria for cheap. Cable cars in the winter probably aren't cheap either, because you pay for the snow canons there, which probably don't get used less in the upcoming years for obvious reasons. In the summer it should. be a bit better, but I am not sure. A good place probably is a smaller, less known ski area. I personally can recommend the Ratschings-Jaufen ski area. It is in Italy, near Sterzing, but I am not so sure, if it is really cheap, if you compare it to other areas.
@@benolifts what is for you cheap? Under 100€ for train and cable car? Or under 150€? I think for 150€ there is a lot to see…
Disney World uses this same model on their new Skyliner system but with the maximum number of cars. It’s generally very efficient, but sometimes does stop from people not choosing the correct line and not being able to hop on the ones that do not stop.
I live in austria and they are pretty common there. But doing like a cable car tour is not worth it because most of them are only open during winter. And to even get on them you have to pay a ticket or something most of the times.
For the ones that are 'not working', they're almost certainly fine. It's just that they're only for skiers and snowboarders, as they can ski off the lift. As it's not ski season, they won't be open as it'll be pretty hard for normal people to use those lifts as they can't slide across the ground. It's also not particularly busy so why waste energy by running lifts people aren't going to be using much?
Pls can u do an updated lift tours in Basingstoke the malls and festival place pls since they’ve added new lifts to the malls and festival place.
To be honest, I have completely lost interest in small scale English towns and cities. Years ago I would search around towns to find every lift in the town. But in the present day I have lost the inspiration to do this. All of the old lifts have been replaced. And all of the newly built lifts are either base models (gen2, 3300, NMX07, etc) which are all identical, or are generic lifts (Lester, ThamesValley, etc). There are no quirky interesting lifts, and there are no high quality heavy duty top of the range lifts in small towns anymore. The current attitude is to buy the cheapest lifts, and by the time they need replacing it will be someone else's problem. This has kind of made me lose interest, plus I have travelled the world and seen so much interesting stuff, I just find it hard to get enjoyment from an English town.
Next video beno is watchting cable cars in Austria in Tirol
Thats horrificly expensive if you only want to ride the cablecars.
@@timbauer5541 Austria seems to have a lot of cable cars. But I wonder what the cost effective way of seeing them is. I would also like to visit Liechtenstein, but there seems to be no cheap way of getting there.
@@benolifts But once you've got there, famously all public transport is free.
Second! These look faster than most.
In Toulouse we now have a cable car with huge cabins, 20 seats + 14 standing (total 34!!!).The cable car is 3km long and passes over a hill and has an intermediate station. Awesome €100M toy, I love it but I think its useless, it goes nowhere. You can take it with a normal ticket(€1.80)
Man I really want to ride this
hey austin this is guys
I’ve ridden one like this a few days ago
Amazing 👍👍
Beno can you do a Deatiled look at a 1st genarition kone ecodisc
That looks impressive. I know that London has one which goes over the River Thames.
London's Doppelmayr is in the wrong place. It goes between destinations that very few people would want to go between. Plus it is not included on the travel card, which ultimately means that very few people use it. Boris lied claiming that non-tourists would use it, when FOI revealed that in the first year only 4 season ticket commuters used it, and as far as I know this has since dropped to zero season tickets. So commuters don't want it, and tourists are not as interested in it compared to if it had been built in a tourist area. So the entire thing has pretty much not justified its build cost. It was Boris's vanity project. Just like is other waste on money vanity projects, such as his buses that are overly heavy and the engine charges the batteries at the wrong time, leading to the batteries using up their designed charging cycles far too quickly, as well as not really saving any fuel. And now the all door boarding has been changed to single door boarding. This means all of Boris's features he wanted have failed, so all that is left is an overly heavy and slow bus, that doesn't do anything special or better than any other bus.
Yeah absolutely. Totally agree with you Beno. Keep up the good work. 👍
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Otis 2000 VF!
Just a quick thought about what I see here.
Perhaps it's something to do with a scarily highly functional CCTV/ID card/Big Brother society; or
Perhaps it's an endearingly old fashioned and law-abiding land; or
Perhaps we should have a word with ourselves because:
I'm struck by the expensive, efficient, endlessly repeating system with its uncountable supply of clean, crisp and empty gondolas.
There seems to be nobody securing them, no other passengers to keep an eye on any wayward yoof and no end of opportunity to do them damage, should someone so wish.
How so? How can the rest of the planet's populations copy parts of this idyl? Is it an idyl, or is it perfectly pristine on the surface but just underneath is a quivering mass of oppressed masses?
I don't think health and safety is anywhere near as strict in Croatia compared to the UK. One thing I noticed is that the cabins started engaging the fast cable as soon as the door shut. I really wanted to stick my foot in the door and see what happens. Would the entire cable car shut down, or would it have carried on regardless. Also, with how quick it accelerates to the cable, and how long it would take to bring the cable to a stop, I wonder if the cabin would have exceeded to station before it stopped. I regret not testing this. If someone had got stuck in the doors, the cabin would have have started hurtling out the station before the system had time to emergency stop. On Boris's Doppelmayr in London, there is a some distance from when the doors shut before the cable starts engaging.
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