Urban planners from Mexico City to Toulouse are adopting the high-flying mode of transit. Will it catch on elsewhere?

The new means of transport were not immediately called trams […] they were called: horse-drawn railway, iron omnibuses, carriages, horse-drawn cars, trains. In the city dialect, even the word ‘toads’ ...

It’s a tram, not a cable car system, says Dale. “The key difference is that an aerial tramway has just one or two vehicles shuttling back and forth between two stations, while cable-propelled ...