A one-way cable car ticket cost 5 Denars, which was dirt cheap to Zong Shen.
But by village- and Bang City-level standards of wages and prices, it was still somewhat expensive.
He still remembered when Baron Besos had recruited maidservants for odd jobs in Xitano Village. The monthly wage had been 20 Denars, amounting to only 240 Denars a year, plus 20 days of family leave.
In other words, if one of the baron's maidservants took the cable car, a single trip would cost nearly a week's wages.
However, maids in the Great City earned considerably more.
Normally, they could earn 50 to 70 Denars per month, several times the wage standard of a Bang City.
If one wanted to save money, the cheapest way to travel within the city was still by mule cart or ox cart.
For just 1 Denar, one could travel the same distance as a one-way cable car ride.
That was why nearly every wealthy household in the city kept horses.
The demand for dry feed needed to raise horses far exceeded the supply.
It was precisely because the Great City covered such an enormous area that every district had developed into its own system.
There were even cases where traveling from the southern side of the city's third ring to the northern side took several weeks.
Transportation determined travel efficiency, and ordinary citizens certainly could not access those efficient methods.
So the cable car's price was not actually too expensive. No one wanted to waste so much time just wandering around the city, because time was money.
In truth, the Great City's cable cars could only be considered a mid-tier means of transportation within the city.
There were many methods less efficient than them, as well as many more efficient ones.
For example, magic-powered