On Jan 31, 1:48*pm, Paul Terry wrote:
In message , Ian Jelf
writes

In message , Recliner
writes
The cable car will connect Greenwich and the Royal Docks, carrying up
to 2,500 passengers-an-hour.

Is that a realistic figure? * It seems very high to me but I don't have
first hand knowledge of such

* things.

It depends on the size of the gondolas (as they seem to be called). The
Montjuic cable car that crosses the harbour in Barcelona has only two
(large) reciprocating gondolas and is claimed to have a capacity of 8000
passengers per hour.

The Thames proposal ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...elandtransport....
andhttp://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=5044185

seems more like the Singapore system, with multiple small gondolas
following a circular route:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sentosa-cableway.jpg

Singapore can manage 1400 per hour, but it is a rather longer journey
than the Thames proposal and it includes a midway station, which London
won't have.

--
Paul Terry

There was a fatal accident on the Singapore system, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapo...e_Car_disaster

It just seems rather a short time to get the system up and running
before the Olympics, and you presumably have to make sure that there
was a safety case etc. just as with the railways.