Now for a tiny fraction of this payout, the cable car company could have closed on the days the loadlifting was done. [edit] Oh well ... they won't do it again
Indeed they won't. This is the only way that human beings learn. The thread currently running in Rumours about the pressure that commercial pilots are under to bend the rules for a better commercial solution ... folks ask how can be stop the insidious drift of the saftey first culture?
The answer is simple: When enough people die and enough money is lost. Providing, that is, that the root cause can be identified but that is another discussion. So the people that dies in this accident will help to save lives in the future. That is what our species does.