London has announced a $65 million, 1.1 kilometer cable car over the Thames.  They hope construction will be completed in time for the Olympics next summer.  The system will carry 2500 people an hour, and they expect 2 million users per year.  Pretty cool renderings at the link. 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/18/london.olympics.cable.car/index.html?hpt=C2

 

I dig it.

Work has begun, but now they are indicating that it may not be done for the Olympics (and that it was not part of the transportation plan for the Olympics anyway).  Link also has a decent video rendering of it. 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14059134

 

We've got plenty of bridges in SW Ohio, but I would love to see a cable car across the Ohio--say, Newport to Sawyer Point or Covington to the Central Riverfront Park.