In 2018, developer Millennium Partners pitched a $100 million gondola system as way to circumvent gridlocked traffic in the Seaport and ferry its employees to the furthest reaches of the neighborhood. Why, you ask, might this dreamiest of transportation projects remain just a dream? Because, simply put, gondolas aren’t the fix we like to think they are.īoston’s last flirtation with suspended cable car transit was a lot of things: exciting, futuristic, and a waste of time. How’d that feel? Good? Swell, because this is as close as you’ll probably ever get to riding the newly proposed vision for a gondola currently being pitched by Everett and Encore. You step aboard a sleek, shiny new gondola and float majestically over the city of Everett before landing softly at the casino-a quick, quirky jump from the Assembly MBTA stop over the Mystic River. Picture this: You’re standing on the Somerville side of the Mystic, with money in your pocket and Lady Luck on your side, ready to head over to Encore to test the odds. Wynn Resorts already operates a gondola system at its Wynn Palace casino resort in Macau, China.
