Post by Steven Dale
St. John's, Newfoundand. Image by flickr user Robert Ciavarro.
What makes an ideal city for Urban Gondola implementation?
We most probably think about topographical challenges first and foremost. For example, St. John’s, Newfoundland (pictured above) would be an ideal candidate due to it’s topography, unique harbour and its iconic Signal Hill. Similarly, cities like Hamilton, Ontario or Pittsburgh or Cincinnati could also be ideal.
Really any city with any combination of hills, mountains valleys, ravines, parks, rivers, inlets, bays and harbours could be a viable Urban Gondola candidate.
But the more you think about it, the more you realize virtually every city possesses some combination of hills, mountains valleys, ravines, parks, rivers, inlets, bays and harbours. It’s in our nature to settle in these very places. There are very few reasons for humanity to settle in a purely flat blank slate environment.
The challenge, therefore, is to separate the wheat from the chaff and spot intuitively what would work where and why. And that can only come from first hand knowledge – from your experience.
So let’s ask this question: What cities can you imagine an Urban Gondola system working in? What cities have you lived in or visited that you know could benefit from an Urban Gondola or Cable Propelled Transit system? And more importantly: Why?
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