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  A cable car will be one thing that offers the potential to get people into the town. It would in itself be an attraction and people instead of driving straight to the castle could, instead come to central Dover and take a cable car ride to the castle. They are then more likely to spend a bit of time and money in the town. It would work the other way too, getting people down from the castle.
  
  I remember back in the 70's and then the pub talk was about the millions of passengers and why on earth could we not capitalise on them and get them into the town!!... The same old argument then. Quite frankly, people travelling to and from Europe are mostly interested in getting to their destination with very few likely to stop off unfortunately. At the end of the day investors will look at the demographics and will not base decisions on 'what if travellers stop in Dover'. Sorry Ed and Peter, I had that same pipe dream as you but pipe dream is all it is.
  
  That does not mean we don't try to get more to pull some of them into the town as part of re-generation of course, particularly that associated with the marina with a kind of Spinaker Tower kind of thing of course but we have to be realistic in our expectations and understanding of what will attract investors.
  
  Paul aka is absolutely right, DDC has no cash and very little direct influence on getting this done. They can only work with partners (and get the planning approvals right...). They are often blamed incorrectly for things not happening (sometime correctly too... but mostly the blame assigned to them is overdone)

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