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Cable Car over Mt Wellington's Organ Pipes 13-Jul-2014 At 3:11:43 PM Doug
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On 13/07/2014 spicelab wrote:
>I'll eat my underpants if it ever happens.
I hope that won't be necessary! :-0
>
>Weather and visibility on the Mount are shit for the majority of the year
>meaning there's nothing to see once you get up there and no incentive to
>get out and wander around.
That's what we keep saying but that doesn't seem to deter the proponents or those supporters who don't actually spend much time on the mountain. The danger there is that if it is built and proves to be the white elephant that many people think it will is that the taxpayer will end up paying to run it - or have it removed. You can count on the Liberals for that, to whom Adrian Bold is well connected
>
>The wind is frequently insane, meaning the engineering challenges are
>so significant that the final price tag will be stratospheric, especially
>when taking into account the limited patronage.
Actually, with the proposed location, wind will be a non-factor. They want to site the terminus below the current lookout. Anyone who's done much walking on the mountain in inclement weather - primarily strong westerlies/north-westerlies - can tell you that there is a huge reduction in wind exposure as soon as you drop down off of the summit plateau.
>
>On top of these engineering costs
The engineering costs will be cheapest with the route they have proposed, but would do the most damage to the environment of the Organ Pipes and the shelf above.

are those associated with navigating
>the environmental impact assessment process, which would be an absolute
>shitfight given how many people/properties would be directly affected.
I certainly hope you are right about this, but there are dark forces massing behind this proposal which would have no qualms about trampling the environment in the name of "development". The best hope there is in terms of stopping it is to put forth as many cases against is as possible - during the actual period that submissions will be accepted.
>
>I can put you in to touch with my mum if you want more reasons.
Can you ask her if she will put in a submission for us?
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