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Bai Bureh Road is an older highway built to access Freetown’s port and alleviate smaller arterials. As it typical when road
capacity is created, Bai Bureh is now regularly congested, a warning for the Hillside Bypass that was built to circumvent
Bair Bureh’s congestion.
Average one-way capacities for different modes of travel (National Association of City Transportation Officials).
as quickly as possible, Freetown must focus not only on
motor vehicles but on far more space-efficient methods
of travel, particularly transit, ferries, biking and walking.
The hilltop mid-station of the Mio Cable railway gondola in Cali, Columbia stands in the neighborhood of Siloe (Source:
Luis Robayo, Stringer/Getty Images).
The capacity of non-automobile focused transport
infrastructure is orders of magnitude greater, while
also being far more space efficient and capable of
supporting compatible land uses, including Freetown’s
well-developed roadside commerce. In the space of
just one lane of roadway that might in downtown carry
800 people an hour in one direction in its most efficient
operation, Freetown could operate regular buses
carrying over 2,000 people per hour, have a separated
transitway carrying at least 6,000 people per hour,
create a dedicated bike highway for over 7,000 people
per hour, or simply make it safe and unobstructed to
walk and accommodate nearly 10,000 people per hour.
When walking is already Freetown’s predominant mode,
it is unfortunate that a two-mile drive can take an hour,
when walking could be shorter if it was simply better
accommodated with continuous paths and sidewalks.
Cable Car Advantages
At full operation, other precedents of the proposed
Freetown cable car operation in South America
