Siachoquero, le 12 juin 2019 - 20:31 , dit :
Moscow crazy plans.

Well, don't take these pictures of Moscow too seriously. I know the areas where they show the lifts - property rights, existing utilities and buildings, aerial power lines, architectural restrictions - almost impossible to sort out (plus no real point anyways...
Meanwhile here is another project in Russian town which already managed to secure funding to complete the design this year and get a 2km gondola built next year and it makes much more sense than Moscow's futurism:
It's Derbent - the oldest (and southernmost, in Dagestan) town at Russian territory located at Caspian shore where it meets the eastern part of Caucasus range.
Derbent has a medieval fortress which is a Unesco world heritage site located above the coastal town.
Of course a tourist-oriented gondola would increase attention to Derbent it will make a fortress and hillside park more accessible (three locations for bottom station at the center of the town are now being discussed - I showed the lines in Google Earth) but what is interesting is that one of the reasons for the top station location choice was to .. cover up the mistakes of the previous administration:
A quite large part of the old town and an area around the fortress is a Unesco buffer zone with certain restrictions however previous administration allowed to build on building at the corner of it above the city for uncertain reasons (most likely as an elite residence) but when the admininstration was changed new guys in charge proclaimed the construction illegal and an unfinished structure is sitting there. Since most of it is built they were thinking of how to make things better and decided to turn it into public space with a museum, restaurant and possible a hotel. This is where the gondola is supposed to come from the center of the town.
Yet I think they have to get a consent from Unesco as the lift line would be in a
buffer zone. At the moment they haven't chosen a supplier and are in talks with Russian reps of Doppelmayr and Poma.