They can also be useful for water crossings or informal developments (e.g., favelas) where it’s hard to acquire linear rights-of-way. Tricable gondolas can go faster (up to around 30 km/h) and carry more people (5k to 8k pax per direction per hour), which puts it comparable to a single-lane BRT. But yeah, they’re certainly not a replacement for heavy metro or suburban rail for servicing longer distance and/or higher capacity routes.
They can also be useful for water crossings or informal developments (e.g., favelas) where it’s hard to acquire linear rights-of-way. Tricable gondolas can go faster (up to around 30 km/h) and carry more people (5k to 8k pax per direction per hour), which puts it comparable to a single-lane BRT. But yeah, they’re certainly not a replacement for heavy metro or suburban rail for servicing longer distance and/or higher capacity routes.