I have yet to hear any specifics on why the tram is 'on it's last legs'....thats the excuse they've used to not carry skiers for the last decade. Tram problems magically seem to go away in the summer when year after year day after day they run full speed, full capacity grossing as much as $2200 a trip! I think they are shuttering the tram now because they could care less about skiers. There is ample evidence of deferred or incomplete maintenance, snow making pipes lay broken for years, substandard grooming and on and on. What happened to that promise of making good to passholders when they closed during covid?
This is a simple government fail. The state has known the tram was aging for at least twenty years and the best they could do was toss out $12m a couple years ago for a 40+million dollar job! No wonder they only got ONE bid, no one else wanted to get near that clusterXXXX. This announcement with no details, no plan no timeframe and not enough money is the equivalent of a 3 year old promising to hold their breath until they get what they want. This could have been done at half todays cost ten years ago. No vendor wants to deal with these amateurs in the state who want to re-use and hold stuff together with bailing wire (re-use of components). Ayotte should fire every person involved at the State park system, but that won't happen, they'll just keep counting the days until their pensions come due. Personally I don't think you'll ever see another tram at Cannon, what you will see is some pissed off skiers when the Peabody goes down during Christmas week.....
Re read that nothingburger announcement, 'great news folks we're shutting down the tram without any plan, timeframe, budget or process for a replacement'
. Even though they are run by the state; the mountain needs to stay competitive. 
