Open since 2012 at a cost of around £60M to realise, they are considered a bit of a white elephant. The idea was to utilise the River Thames more as a commuter zone, but unless you live in Canning Town (on the north side) and work in North Greenwich (on the south side) or vice versa, then they probably aren't that much use to you. Besides, these two areas are well-served by buses, the tube and the Docklands Light Railway.
But as a tourist attraction these cable cars- or gondolas, as they call them- are just fantastic, and offer a spectacular view down the river. Come and take a walk in my shoes and we'll fly high above the water, and I'll tell you a bit about them.
I also put together a Greenwich blog way back in 2017, and it contains some information about the cable cars. I will always be a writer before anything else, and the link is here:-
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