Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
the cable car white elephant has reard its head again,thought it was dead in the water.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/cable-car-work-progresses-92422/Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#2
Would be amazed (not in a good way) is this happened. Surely there won't be a good enough business case?
Isn't the castle shut some of the winter?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#3
yep.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#4
All very vague with the likelihood that if it did ever happen it would be cruise passengers going to the Castle and back on it, I doubt many will stop off in town even if they do have a drop off place there.
The Castle closes from November until about Easter except for weekends, Halloween and a few days over Christmas.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#5
Definitely a White Elephant.
The cable car idea is one of the daftest that I have ever heard of, but I am repeating myself from when the plan was suggested before.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#6
Its a money winner I first told the D,D,C,this back in the 1990s and again when I was a town cllr still got the letters some where .
Dover needs things like this to bring in the outside public and from
overseas, they would see it coming over on the ferry and when they got off the ship that would be the first thing they head for.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#7
What a brilliant idea! It could be as successful as the cable car in London which [U]only[/U] needs a £5 million a year council subsidy in spite of 8 million local residents and 17.4 million foreign visitors last year. Doh!
What planet are you people on? (and do they have cable cars there?)
http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/boriss-vanity-cable-car-likely-to-stay-open-until-2021-after-tfl-accounts-show-it-makes-a-profit/"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#8
Yes!.... "they would see it coming over on the ferry"... completely spoiling their view of the iconic White Cliffs of Dover that visitors and those returning to the UK love.
As for being a money spinner it will be out of action every time there is a high wind.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#9
And who would not pay for a cable car ride from an attraction which is closed for part of the year to a shopping centre which appears moribund for all of the year!
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#10
Its hardly up in the mountains is it?Plenty of other ways to get there,anyway once we get our portable privet hedge in the market square instead of a fountain,i doubt the tourists will want to visit the castle.
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
#11
The London cable car had 1.5 million visitors last year, producing a revenue of £6million, and a subsidy of £5million. It will probably be closed in 2021.
Dover Castle had 330,000 visitors, 4% down on the previous year.
At least if we wait until 2021 there will be second hand one going cheap.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#12
Maybe a fairground themed attraction,how about a roller coaster going up to the castle.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#13
Surprised that there wasn't a bigger drop in visitors to the Castle considering the Summer traffic problems.
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