The sky-cable idea seems wildly impractical, but the way moving works certainly could be radically improved.
Where I live, most residential buildings lack elevators and loading docks. Dealing with this is, by far, the largest single cost to moving: everything must be carried down a set of stairs, across a street and into a truck, then out of a track and up a set of stairs, and must be packaged to make this feasible. That means completely unloading all drawers and shelves into boxes, and makes wheels on furniture useless. Since furniture’s going to have to be unloaded and disassembled anyways, people fail to look for other optimizations, like wheels on things that don’t move often or drawers that latch shut.
The sky-cable idea seems wildly impractical, but the way moving works certainly could be radically improved.
Where I live, most residential buildings lack elevators and loading docks. Dealing with this is, by far, the largest single cost to moving: everything must be carried down a set of stairs, across a street and into a truck, then out of a track and up a set of stairs, and must be packaged to make this feasible. That means completely unloading all drawers and shelves into boxes, and makes wheels on furniture useless. Since furniture’s going to have to be unloaded and disassembled anyways, people fail to look for other optimizations, like wheels on things that don’t move often or drawers that latch shut.