Over water and on water
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rivers. You can use a bridge to cross the river, or you can use different kinds of transportation. You can go over the water or on the water.
Cities like London have a lot of bridges but other cities find other ways of helping people travel across the rivers.
Cable cars
In London, you can go across part of the River Thames by
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cable car
The cable cars travel 90 meters above the ground. You can see the city from high in the sky.
A cable car in London
These cable cars are usually for tourists and they move slowly so that people can see lots of things. But they are also for people who live in London, so they move faster when people are going to and coming home from work.
A lot of tourists like to use the cable car because you can see so much through the windows. You can see all the way down the river and lots of buildings that are near the river in the center of the city.
Water taxis
There’s lots of water in Venice in Italy and there aren’t a lot of cars. The people from Venice can go across the canal in a
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water taxi
The water taxi is an old gondola. A gondola is a kind of boat. It doesn’t have a
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motor
Two people
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A gondola in Venice
In Venice, ambulances and fire trucks are boats, too!
More people can travel in New York’s big, yellow water taxis. They have a motor and they take passengers along the East River and the Hudson River.
A water taxi in New York
They don’t always cross the river, they often take people along the river on the same side. This way people don’t need cars and it is faster than walking.
