Build the cable car and the only people who will be able to afford to get to the top of Mt Wellington are tourists who’ve saved all year

This is scraping the barrel for a bit of political attention.Polly bollocks.

Crikey $200 grand for a feasibility study. I want to sign up, in 4 years at the desk I should be able to tell you if it can be done.
Maybe a couple of minutes will do and I can be on the sort of wages CEO’s are on.
Cable Car. what for.
Try thinking outside the square. Cable cars are affected by weather , can’t run in high winds, sort of weather that Mr Wellington experiences a lot.
How about an ABT type system on a monorail or tram track that winds a car up the mountain. The power from a descending car could be fed into the power supply to power the one going up.

Now we are seeing real politics in action, a $220,000-00 feasibility study for goodness sake, how about this just being an exercise of smashing 200.000 taxpayer dollars into an uncaring consultants pocket?
Excuse me for lampooning such an idiot waste of money, in getting some avaricious crank to do a feasibility study will result in a huge expensively designed contraption that will far exceed the original simplistic conception.
Then to travel up the mountain on a Gucci designed travel elevating gadget, will cost somewhere in the region of some politician plucked out of the air figure of $150-00 per person, simply so the State government can feed more money into its wasteful maws?
No thank you, a drive up the mountain will not cost me and the missus any $300-00.
Look at the cost to enter the convict ruins of port Arthur, look to the cost just to walk upon a wilderness track, then inquire to the cost of a trip on the ABT railway?
All far to expensive for the humble Tasmanian to afford, ultimately too expensive to lure the tourists into Tasmania?

I agree with William (#4). Looking forward, it is easy to see that such schemes will not be viable - the volume of domestic traffic is just not high enough as most locals will drive to the summit (because it’s cheaper). Then the government of the day will close the current pinnacle road (on safety reasons, of course) to force use of the cable car or railway, in order to prop up yet another “private” monopoly.

LETS get gunns to build it ,we could have a cable car and cable logging mt.wellington at the same time,a great tourist attraction.

Nonsense! We must climb Mt Wellington from the inside! Next time there is a resources slump, get redundant mining contractors down to the Elizabeth St mall, develop a drive to below the summit, then a shaft upwards, and faster than you can say “ying tong iddle I po” ‘tis done! There must be some spare winding gear around somewhere.  All-weather access, nice and warm and all the water seeping in can be fed in to an “Antarctic experience” water slide in the mall.
The Goons did it for Britain under Mt Everest. Surely we can tackle Mt Wellington. The Iron Duke would be proud to have his name associated with such an engineering feat.
Neddy Seagoon
Bex Hill on Sea

And what about those snow ploughs that the Hobart City Council have bought.I thought that they were supposed to be for keeping the road open in winter.Please allow me to introduce the left hand of the City Council to the right hand of Liberal policy.Maybe they’ll find out what they are doing.

Well i am truly amazed, so what if it is expensive ! and we don’t wish to use it, think of the tourist dollars it will bring to the state, with perhaps also a hotel complex at the summit, these are exactly the type of projects we all should be pushing for rather than have Govt’s throw money at private logging industries.

    WE cannot be against everything ! just because we personally may not use it , and think of the tourist ships lined up ! and the generated dollars that will flow into the State ! 

    The Greens have said they would wish to see the eventual end of the gambling cartel’s ! and ideas’s such as this with the revenue generated, which “WOULD NOT” cause family anguish ! and in fact could well help to get rid of such.

    Tasmanian Govt have become reliant upon the “gambling dollar” and we need to be smart and find new way’s of generating tourist dollars if we are ever going to be rid of or at least downsize this insidous industry.

    So when knocking something for the sake of it ! ask yourself why you are doing so ! whilst taking on board that saying “the lesser of two evils”  and personally, i see no evil attached to a cable car whatsoever !
                  d.d.

It’s a better idea if it leaves from Kingston and drops commuters on its way through Hobart…

In reply to 4, sorry William Boeder but tourists are happily paying about $100 a head to go on the Abt Railway and the Gordon River cruise and to visit Port Arthur. And, yes, many of those people are Tasmanians. I would pay $100 to go up Mt Wellington in a cable car. I’ve paid more to go up cable cars in Europe!

If I recall correctly, Hobart remains the number one tourist destination in Tasmania. But what activities does it offer? The Salamanca Market, Port Arthur not too far away, a cruise on the Derwent . . . we’re scratching the bottom of the barrel aren’t we? Hobart needs more activities to keep tourists in the city longer.

We often hear environmentalists saying that the future is tourism. Well if that’s the case, then we need to offer tourists more - more to do, more to experience.

4; It’s not just you who look William. We have a steady trail of visitors who come to see us, but do the tourist bit whilst they are here.
Common comment is that they enjoyed themselves but are sick of being ripped off. Tasmanians need to learn that tourists are just like themselves, but on holiday. They don’t have a golden goose in the camper, farting out $100 notes!

#11 Red Bob - Didn’t I just read the Green’s policy launch which supported nature based tourism ? You beauty !

Re: 13. Yeah, nature-based tourism - bushwalking and the like. Tasmania is perfect for those with both the ability and the inclination. Of course, this is only a small slice of the tourism market. Most tourists are the older retired or almost retired couples. They don’t want to go for a bushwalk, but they would like a cable car ride to enjoy one of the most beautiful vistas anywhere.

I have a plan that should please everybody.
build a soft landing pad just below the summit on the opposite side to hobart where it can’t be seen.
At the base of the mountain build a massive user friendly human catapult on a turntable surrounded
by genetically enhanced gum trees to quickly hide
it from view.
Any one wishing to reach the summit would merely have to don a special suit which would be issued after the money had been inserted then sit in the chair provided and push the red button after which the state of art computer would take over.
After having sensed wind direction and wind speed together with humidity plus other factors the computer, then after adjustments,being satisfied that all was safe would release the catapult and WHAMO in mere seconds the rider would find him or herself safely on the landing pad to be greeted by an official who would retrieve the special suit for others to wear.
Maybe the Premier of the day could be the first passenger thus ensuring other potential users of its safety.

      HA HA HA Let’s think outside the square.

re #7. As an ex-Bexhillian you made me laugh. Yes, Neddy Seagoon did a stint at jolly old Bexhill-on-Sea. It is good to have someone bring back memories that make one laugh in such drear times. Pre-election blah, blah and now, a good laugh, thank you.

I see an “Eiffel tower style laces tructure”, of course not as big ! and built in Salamanca  
  The lace structure , so as not to block the sun, with a lift to the exit point, then all the way to the mountain affording magnificent veiws from the onset, topped with a huge hotel type complex at the summit so people could stay overnight in the event of not being able to see the view due to bad weather.
    For many years i have invisaged such ! and if i were a rich man would have built the bloody thing myself.
    It alone ! would be the main tourist attraction in the Southern hemisphere and would cement Tasmania’s tourism attraction for ever more ! whilst ensuring that Gunn’s type projects would never raise their ugly heads again.
 
                    d.d.
             
               
                        d.d.