[JonSkeptic]

This is really cool and incredibly dangerous:

>The cabins run without a braking system; if the haulage cable snaps, the cabins will roll straight back down the track cable. This happened to a tramway in Georgia's capital Tbilisi in 1990, killing twenty people.

All in all, a good article that shows a really neat place. A city of tons of tramways, built for an incredible worker efficiency. The pictures are well done and almost make it feel like you're visiting. It was one article that didn't leave me hanging.

[cynwoody]

Brings to mind the time a US Marine Corps aircraft sliced a ski-lift cable† with its wing at an Italian ski resort, killing 20 people. The airplane was damaged but managed to land safely at Aviano Air Base.

†http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(19...

[tacticus]

With the pilots getting away with it.

[dllthomas]

Is that better or worse than cars on a windy mountain road?