Funiculars

Topography and weather define Seattle's potential bike ridership, not the lack of infrastructure (that is unless they're thinking of doing some pretty major bike funiculars that I haven't heard of, and/or global warming sharply reduces the number of rainy days) joshuadf ❋ Unknown (2010)

So for all of you daydreaming of 80-degree days spent hopping between ferries and funiculars on a single "Octopus" transit card, here's our short and saucy guide to the awesome transportation options of Hong Kong: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even “funiculars” up steep hillsides have platforms that are stepped into separate level platforms. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Or hop on one of the three funiculars that take you steadily up some of Lisbon's steepest lanes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I look forward to riding the wonderous Lisbon public transit system trolleys and funiculars, hearing fado music, seeing authentic flamenco, and much, much more, including of course food. ❋ FJK (2006)

There were no ski lifts from Schruns and no funiculars, but there were logging trails and cattle trails that led up different mountain valleys to the high mountain country. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (1992)

There were four sets of funiculars-tiny glass-enclosed bubbles within which as many as six people could sit facing inward, hanging by what looked to Nangi to be a slender piece of steel from the cable line. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1984)

You see before you, madam, a man utterly weary of the week-end riverside hotels of the Euphrates, the minstrels and pierrots on the sands of the Persian Gulf, the toboggans and funiculars of the Hindoo ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

The practical man on the hill, and his scientific companion, (who is merely, so to speak, a man _unpractically_ concerned with practical causes and changes) do not thoroughly see the shapes of the landscape before them; and still less do they see the precise shape of the funiculars, tramways, offices, cheques, volcanoes, ice-caps and prehistoric inhabitants of their thoughts. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

But to how things might look from a balloon, or under a microscope, that man did not give one thought, any more than to how they might look after a hundred years of tramways and funiculars or how they had looked before thousands of years of volcanic and glacial action. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

I quite agree with those who object to "funiculars." ❋ Unknown (1888)

"You applaud telephones on the prairies; why not funiculars here?" ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Valparaiso has over 40 hills on which the city is built and is linked by about a dozen (and some, antique) funiculars. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The on-edge feeling remains as I hurriedly walk east for 2km to reach the plazas and funiculars that the LP guidebook had recommended. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We [rode] a funicular to the [top] [of the mountain]. I have a big funicular. ❋ George Jefferson (2005)