The brain trust behind the Georgetown-Rosslyn Gondola project proposes slinging wires across the Potomac River, running a sort of skyline streetcar across the expanse, and connecting two of the wealthiest population centers in the country. It would cost $90 million, and it promises “access with a view.”

Unnecessary and expensive, this proposed Georgetown gondola provides at least something valuable: a perfect microcosm of how the wealthy leech from the rest of the country.