San Diego: Aerial gondola proposed for area between Balboa Park, downtown

A gondola to sweep through the air between downtown and Balboa Park is proposed today by San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts.

In an interview with the U-T San Diego, Roberts floated the lofty idea of an aerial tram. The paper reported that Roberts is expected to win unanimous approval from the County Board of Supervisors next Tuesday to spend $75,000 to hire a consultant to study the project.

"I've only got four years left to do good things and I've been harboring this for quite some time,'' Roberts told the paper. "I figured that instead of just visualizing it, let's do a feasibility stud...