Name: 擁有百座私人纜車的城市！ (The city with a hundred private cable cars)
Uploaded: 2026-03-28T16:45:27.000Z
Duration: 4 min 19 s

Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, is a city built on steep hills.

紐西蘭的首都威靈頓，是一座建立在陡峭山坡上的城市。

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If you're a tourist, you will probably stop by the Wellington Cable Car at some point, which will pull you up from the main shopping street to the Botanic Gardens.

如果你是遊客，你可能會在某個時候搭乘威靈頓纜車，它會載你從主要購物街前往植物園。

But if you're local, there are more than a hundred other cable cars in the city,

但如果你是當地人，這座城市裡有一百多部其他的纜車，

and they are definitely not for tourists.

而且它們絕對不是給遊客用的。

I purchased this house at the end of 2020, and we were just looking for a house.

我在 2020 年底買了這間房子，當時我們只是在找房子。

We weren't looking for a cable car house.

我們並沒有在找有纜車的房子。

But this house just came with a cable car,

但這間房子就是附帶了一部纜車，

and we found out that the previous owner had some mobility issues, and that's why she installed it.

我們發現前屋主有一些行動不便的問題，所以她才安裝了它。

And I've been living in this cable car house for about two years.

我已經在這間有纜車的房子裡住了大約兩年了。

Access Automation has installed approximately 300 cable cars around New Zealand.

Access Automation 在紐西蘭各地安裝了約 300 部纜車。

The majority of those have been in Wellington because that's their base,

大部分都在威靈頓，因為那是他們的基地，

but we also do installations all around New Zealand and all around the Asia-Pacific, for that matter.

但我們也在紐西蘭各地，甚至整個亞太地區都有安裝。

They've got lots of different names: hillside lift, incline lift—probably a more accurate description.

它們有很多不同的稱呼：山坡升降機、斜坡升降機——這可能比較貼切。

The Australians call them inclinators, which is a pretty cool name.

澳洲人稱它們為 inclinators，這個名字很酷。

This isn't just about laziness or having something swish to raise your property prices.

這不只是關於懶惰，也不是為了讓你的房價更高而裝設的炫東西。

There are quite a few houses in this city that are up on hills and only accessible by long flights of stairs or twisting, winding pathways tucked behind other buildings with no direct road.

這座城市有很多房子都蓋在山坡上，只能爬長長的樓梯或繞過其他建築物後面的蜿蜒小徑才能到達，沒有直接的道路。

There are even some cable cars that give access to several different houses along one track.

有些纜車甚至可以讓一條軌道上的好幾戶人家都能使用。

Our larger cable cars are for commercial installations for hotels and resorts.

我們較大型的纜車是為了飯店和度假村的商業用途。

We're looking at 800 kg, 10 passengers, up to 200 m in length.

我們看過載重 800 公斤、可載 10 位乘客、長度可達 200 公尺的。

And some of them go on almost vertical cliff faces.

有些纜車甚至架設在幾乎垂直的懸崖上。

A typical small residential cable car would carry two people, might run 15, 20 m.

一個典型的住宅小型纜車會載兩個人，可能運行 15 到 20 公尺。

It'd be ideal for a retired couple or just to get access to their home.

這對退休夫婦來說很理想，或是單純為了方便回家。

We still get a lot of enquiries for new cable cars.

我們還是接到很多關於新纜車的詢問。

A common enquiry is for people wanting to develop the back of their section.

一個常見的詢問是，有人想開發他們後院的土地。

In the old days, they would tend to build the houses close to the access point to the road,

以前，人們傾向把房子蓋在靠近馬路出入口的地方，

but with the cable car, it gives the option of opening up rear sections.

但有了纜車，就能選擇開發後方的區域。

but if you've got, like, a 30 or a 40-degree gradient hill, it's not practical for people to walk up 40 or 50 m up a gradient like that.

但如果你的坡度有 30 或 40 度，對人們來說，爬上 40 或 50 公尺的斜坡並不太實際。

So that's where the cable car comes into its own.

and that's one of our challenges: to meet the very high requirements for safety without making them unaffordable.

這也是我們的挑戰之一：在不讓成本過高的情況下，滿足非常高的安全要求。

A small installation is probably starting at around $200,000 New Zealand dollars these days.

現在，小型安裝的費用大約從二十萬紐西蘭元起跳。

So if you've got to regularly lug bags of shopping or anything else heavy up 20 m of stairs, or if you're older and worrying that mobility issues might mean you have to leave your home,

所以，如果你需要定期搬運購物袋或任何重物爬上 20 公尺的樓梯，或者你年紀大了，擔心行動不便會讓你不得不搬離家，

and you've got the money to install one of these, it is actually a reasonable approach.

而且你有錢安裝其中一個，這其實是個合理的選擇。

and like any other elevator, they have to be regularly inspected and certified.

而且就像任何電梯一樣，它們必須定期檢查和認證。

Yeah, it was interesting moving in and never having owned a house before,

是啊，以前我從來沒有買過房子，搬進來住很有趣，

and suddenly the house needs a warrant of fitness, which is something that I'd never thought about.

然後突然間房子需要體檢證明，這是我從來沒想過的事。

It was something I've only associated with cars in the past.

這是我過去只跟汽車聯想在一起的東西。

So cable cars are covered by the Building Act.

所以纜車是受到建築法規的規範。

They're actually considered to be buildings.

They require an annual warrant of fitness,

and our company is registered as an independent qualified party to be able to inspect the cable cars.

而我們公司註冊為合格的獨立第三方，可以檢查這些纜車。

These cable cars are the same as elevators in any other block of apartments, just open to the elements and not quite vertical.

這些纜車跟任何其他公寓大樓的電梯一樣，只是對著戶外而且不是完全垂直。

我覺得如果年紀大了，這很值得。

Like, as a young, fairly quite fit person, I was a bit like, "Oh, OK.

像是，身為一個年輕、相當健康的人，我有點像在想，「喔，好吧。

I guess I just have this annual expense now." But it is, like, fun for parties,

我想我現在就多了這筆年度開銷。」但它，像是，辦派對很有趣，

and everyone loves the cable car, and it is great when you're moving house.

而且每個人都喜歡這纜車，搬家的時候也很棒。

I started Access Automation pretty much 30 years ago,

我大概在 30 年前創立了 Access Automation，

and so we've been designing and building them and maintaining them for that long.

所以我們設計、建造和維護它們已經這麼久了。

It's been an absolutely fabulous experience,

but I sort of feel like it's time to pass the baton on now.

但我感覺現在是時候傳承下去了。

That's something that requires new blood to really let that flourish.

這需要新血來讓它真正蓬勃發展。

It needs to be taken beyond what I can do.

它需要被推向我能力之外的境界。

I guess the most satisfying part of this job is the fact that we're doing something that helps people.

我想這份工作最令人滿意的地方是，我們正在做一些能幫助人們的事情。

We allow elderly people to stay in their homes longer.

我們讓長者能夠在家裡住得更久。

At the other end of the scale, young professional couples, we allow them to develop properties on hillsides and sites that wouldn't otherwise be able to be built on.

另一方面，對於年輕的專業夫妻，我們讓他們能夠在原本無法開發的山坡和地點上開發房地產。

So we're building a product that's got a human element to it.

所以我們正在打造一個具有人情味產品。

I guess that's why I've been doing it for so long and still enjoy it.

我想這就是為什麼我做了這麼久，而且到現在還是很喜歡。

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