Does the Cable Car have a use?

In my first video of 2023 we discuss the dangleway located in London's East End and weather it actually has a practical use.

Footnote: You don't have to pay an extra £15 to use Oyster and Contactless. You can pay the base fare of £5 with both of them but you still have to queue for the cable car regardless. If you pay £20 in total with any method to skip the queue. Oyster and contactless can be used on the barriers as seen in the video.

[Zveebo]

As a tourist I quite enjoyed it – certainly enough to justify £5. Seems silly that you can’t just tap in to ride it though.

[OnkelJajusBahn]

I think even if you aren't that close to all the famous sights. It is still very interresting for tourists, because flying that high above a river is also a very unique experience. Was it worth it building that cable car? Propapelly not. But now that we have it, I think it makes a great tourist attraction.
I want to visit London one day, and the cable car is on my bucket list.
Great and very interresting video, as always.

[jackobei]

I worked on the silvertown tunnel construction projected. they had 2 site one at greenwich and one in silvertown, when i was required to work on the silver town side i would park my car at the greenwich site (im traveling from kent and hate the blackwall tunnel) and then take the cable car. i was taking the cable car around 7am in the morning and its worth noting that it actual travels faster when its not in tourist hours.

[tramcrazy]

I found riding the cable car quite fun, but I definitely can’t see the benefit for commuters!
Interesting what you said about paying more with oyster. On the TfL website it seems like it’s £1 more to pay at the ticket office (£6) and only £5 when paying with oyster. Maybe they’ve changed something and haven’t updated the website.

[AFCManUk]

Tower Bridge is still the cheapest way to see the sights, even though you're not as high up, but it's only £12.30p on most days.

[RJE]

I have to say, I like this video but what let's it down is not timing the queue for the Cable Car. For me regardless of cost I would just tap in and go which would probably make this a quicker route than the DLR/Tube. Also I would have thought they would do a season ticket which would also mean only queueing once a week/month for commuters...

[Ashz_Travels]

Nice video and very well made! Living not very far from the 02, I find that the cable car is only really busy on Weekends, meaning the day that commuters would usually use it the line would not be a problem. Either way, definitely not worth the standard £5 each way ticket and most certainly not £20 to skip the queue.

[krel]

It's really useful if you are riding a bicycle and cannot use the Jubilee Line to cross the river.

The cable car is halfway between the Greenwich Tunnel and the Woolwich Ferry, the next two crossings.

[davidjewood]

Boris Johnson has a lot to answer for. Great video

[OpenbaarVervoerD]

You can tap in with your Oyster Card, also the visitor Oyster Card and have a reduction of 25% and certainly on calm hours there is nobody there, so you can directly go to the cabins. So in that case the cable car would be faster. Also in the advent of combining ExceL! and O2 on a day or night it would come in handy.
It feels like a futuristic way to travel, having London festooned with these ropeways everywhere in the city, Camden would be awesome (don't know if the locals would agree though). In a movie you can make it look like the metro station nearby that the lift is getting directly to the cabins of the cable car, or use the pink passage way over Custom House as a so called route entering the cabins platform. It was awseome at night, with the cranes.

[TransportForLuka]

The cable car is great if there is no queue usually in the winter and there is no 15 pounds extra pay for using a bank contactless card or oyster card its just the standard cable car fare, so when its not busy at all it's actually very good, a lot of times when I went there was no queue and made it straight up to the cable car pod

[fins]

i think i remember an article which specified the extremely low number of regular users of the cable car it is almost entirely used for Leisure if tfl wanted a cable car link across the thames in east london to be used regularly by commuters it probably would of made sense to go further east where there is not allready crossings but it really is not a cost effective and efficient way to transport people across the thames so it is clear tfl made it for tourism which also bodes with the high ticket prices and also if you choose the right time you don't need to queue for very long at all like early not in public holiday seasons it is empty

[tigertunes]

Very good quality video bro. Keep it up :)

[timothybird]

The cable car and Blackwell tunnel are hardly in competition

[AviatorJames]

ive always just tapped in to the cable car, can you not do this anymore? havent been on it since it changed from Emirates to IFS however.

[francesconicoletti]

Surly the question is not how quickly people can travel between the two locations but how many people want to. If the cable car and trains are full regularly the cable car has a use. The Sydney Monorail was probably the quickest way to travel the Sydney Monorail Route, but the Sydney Monorail Route managed to avoid going anywhere that would attract very many passengers, even the ever spendthrift cash cow tourist. It came down.

[qwertyTRiG]

That's a well made video, explaining some things for us outsiders. I knew that many Londoners regarded the cable car 🚡 with scorn, but I wasn't clear on why.

[Dean]

I have been on it years ago as a tourist and I quite liked it but I does seem a little out of the way. It give me something to do for about 20 mins.

Imagine if someone asks you if you travel by train or bus and then you look them straight in the eye and tell them:

*Cable Car.*

[legionnairegonk]

Does it have a use? Yes. Tourists, joy rides. I took my friend on it on a day out in London. We had lunch at the o2, then took the cabke car back across the river. No other reason to use it for locals daily. I mean why would you pay such a high price to cross the river (slowly) that way when the tube station is just 200 meters away!