Post by Steven Dale
I spent the better part of a morning trying to track down an embeddable (let’s just pretend that’s a word, okay?) version of this news report on the urban gondolas in Algeria. Unfortunately, my search was in vain.
Nevertheless, you should certainly check it out. Unfortunately it’s all in German (no offense to our German-speaking readers). Yet despite that, it has some of the best video footage of the Algerian gondolas I’ve ever seen.
And given the fact that the politics in North Africa are – shall we say – complex, I highly doubt we’ll see many more videos of this quality in the near future. A shame, because these look like truly fascinating systems!
A few stray observations:
- Strong physical integration between bus and gondola stations (0:19).
- Beautiful (1:04).
- While the tower is certainly no work of art, it doesn’t impose on the streetscape as one might expect (2:15).
- It would be interesting to know what reaction the tenants of that apartment building think of the system (3:15).
- The station is positively modest in its interaction with the surrounding urban fabric (3:25).
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