To ease traffic congestion, Mexico City have proposed an unusual form of transportation -- a ski lift-inspired public transit system, also known as "floating gondolas."

In a report by Fusion, with the ever increasing traffic jam in the city, the rush-hour madness has forced citizens of Mexico to get creative on solving this dilemma including elevated highways and "No-Drive" days for older vehicles.

Mexico City's Ministry of Science, Innovation and Technology is expected to launch a prototype this year for the newly proposed public transit system that resembles a ski-lift suspended above the streets.

Then, each of these floating gondolas will be fully automated and can be individually programmed to transport commuters directly to their final destination without making any stops, according to the planners of the project.

According to Science Alert, the city's ministry of science said that the 3-mile line could potentially carry 37 million passengers a year, and that number could reach up to 200 million if the line were to be extended to 10 miles. And compared to the city's busiest subway line, which carries 290 million passengers a year, that could mean a significant number of people riding the sky road network.

Moreover, the compact two-seater gondolas would be highly efficient to operate since it would not stop to change different lines. It will also move at a brisk pace of 9 miles per hour that although sounds slow, they would be easily outpacing the average traffic speed of the city which is just under 5 miles per hour.

Mexico News Daily reported that the TomTom traffic index rates for Mexico City is the second worst in the world, only after Istanbul of Turkey.

TomTom rates the city's traffic based on how much extra time is required when there is congestion. In Mexico City, a trip is 55 percent longer if the streets are not clear.

Currently, more than 60 percent of the city's residents use a public transit subway or bus, while at least 16 percent use their own car.

It should be noted that no one mass transit system is enough to handle serving everybody all the time, and any new mode of transport added would need to justify its creation by significantly alleviating traffic pressure.

The funding for these sky gondolas would require both public and private investment, but, if the proposed project works well, the interest for such system may also be implemented in other cities in the future.

Watch the animated video below to see how the proposed transport system will work.