Post by Steven Dale
Yesterday, The Gondola Project was linked to by Planetizen, the world’s oldest and largest urban planning-related site on the internet. As a result, traffic has increased dramatically.
In an effort to help ease these new visitors into the topic, I’ve linked to a group of 20 posts from the first few months of The Gondola Project to help explain the site and its position on Cable Propelled Transit (CPT) and Urban Gondolas. I’d also encourage new readers to check out the most popular posts listed on the right hand side of the page as well as the education modules on the bottom right.
This site is intended as a primer on Urban Gondolas and Cable Propelled Transit, but we discuss a lot of transit-related issues as well. This also isn’t a site for zealots. The Gondola Project believes Urban Gondolas and CPT are useful additions to the public transit family. We don’t, however, believe them to be a cure-all. We believe in multi-modality and the exploration of many different forms; Urban Gondolas being one of them.
In the next couple of months, we’ll be rebuilding some parts of The Gondola Project to increase usability and accessibility of past posts. In the meantime, have a look around, ask questions, comment profusely and have an open mind. Urban Gondolas may seem bizarre at first, but they’re well worth figuring out.
– Steven Dale
- The Basics
- PPHPD
- CPT Is Not A Cure-All
- Time Is A Non-Renewable Resource
- Translating Gondolas Into Urban Gondolas
- Urban Gondolas, Cable Cars & Snow
- Shooting A Chickadee With A Cannonball
- Is Cable A Niche Technology?
- CPT Is Not A Monorail
- De-Bugging
- LT1M Wait Times
- LRT Is Chicken
- What About PRT?
- The Wealth of Poor Nations
- We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
- The Public Transit Model
- What Changed?
- January 28th, 1882
- Bondada-Neumann Study, Part 1
- History & Future
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