Thursday, September 4, 2025

Hungary for Change


We've been dwelling on things cable-related today, haven't we darlings, and I need to get this one both of my chest and desktop and onto the world's biggest and most influential transport blog... but I can't find it.

I came across it whilst looking at the Red Dot design awards, where I considered I might enter my boat... until I saw that it cost money to do so.

How this thing works though is that each of those cabins can be propelled along the streets on tramlines using an electrical pod, from which it can be disconnected at the terminus in order to transform into a cable car.

Sadly elevated cable-cars barely exist as means of public transport, appearing to be the go-to means of getting people to the tops of summits for (a) the view and (b) ski-ing, while it lasts.

Nonetheless if you could fly into Lukla and take a tram to base camp that becomes a pressurised cable-car to the summit, then I'd be up for it.

All it would need is a bit of imagination, and a death-wish.