I HAVE been on many cable cars around the world, and usually they are built over deep ravines, extensive forests, and/or mountainous cliffs.

The Malvern Hills are little more than smooth hills with gently rising paths and do not justify elaborate technology to climb them.

I realise that donkeys were used to transport Victorian ladies (the donkeys were rested in a field adjacent to my garden, and they were stabled in a wooden hut near the centre of Malvern which may still exist).

The modern equivalent would be golf buggies. I have one, and I agree with the ramblers that they would be easily capable of climbing the hills (even using the same wooden hut if it still exists).

This would show whether anything better would be viable.

As there is no cafe at the top (not legal) the buggies could carry suitable refreshments with them so that the infirm or lazy could view the scenery through the bottom of a glass!

Or am I being naive, the real object of the current cable car plan being to make a lot of money for someone?

Geoffrey Bishop

Malvern Wells