In recent years, Sarajevo has seen a number of interesting ideas and projects that look good on paper. Even some professionals endorse such proposals, but it seems we are dreaming too much and doing too little in order.
If the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina gets stuck with 30 centimeters of snow every year during the peak of winter, if public transport has a series of problems and operates in cooperation with a private company, if there is still a shortage of a large number of trams, buses, trolleybuses, and so on, if every summer there is a problem with waste disposal, and the machinery of municipal enterprises is scarce and outdated, with procurement moving very slowly, if the capital already has traditional water reductions and constant repairs, where half the city or more goes without water for half a day or sometimes longer, then initiatives for inclined trams, new cable cars, and the like represent, to put it mildly, an unserious approach detached from reality.
Proposals and reminders of past projects and ideas about tunnels and underpasses sound nice, while the city is stuck in all-day traffic collapse, where parking is a lottery, and traveling from one end of the city to the other at certain intervals can take hours.
Inclined lifts and cable cars sound great in video presentations, but the priorities of the authorities and all decision-makers should be more down-to-earth. So, only when the problem of stationary traffic is solved, when the excuse for not clearing snow is no longer a lack of machinery, when the topic is not containers overflowing with garbage, when the excuse for traffic jams is not months-long work at a simple intersection, then ideas about cable cars and inclined trams might make sense. Everything else seems like a mockery of our daily lives.