Another beautiful day on Mt Wellington today and our mountain - the people's mountain - was just teeming with folks. On the way up we passed heaps of road cyclists on their way up and down, there were four pairs of climbers on the the southern end of the Organ Pipes and at least one other party somewhere (maybe more if some were at Lost World or had accessed the Pipes from the top) and hikers strolling around. On our way down the road was crowded with other motorists and The Springs was chockers with picnickers and mountain bikers. None of these people seemed to be missing the intrusion of a cable car. It was just the sort of day that reinforced how lucky we are to have what we've got, and that we don't need another, more convenient form of access - one which will cut an intrusive swathe across the front of the mountain.

In our little state of lock-step political thinking and view towards development, Pink Floyd's anti-establishment anthem "We don't need no education" strikes a chord for me:

We could just do a little substitution here ...

We don't need no cable car
We don't need no road control
No dark dealings in the boardroom
You lot, leave them Pipes alone!

Hey, you lot, leave them Pipes alone!

All in all it's just more sleazy clutter
All in all you're just more sleazy clutter

I guess, given that the only way there will be a cable car is if it goes straight up over the Organ Pipes with an ugly swathe cut through the forest below, I'm dead against it.