Last week, St. Louis announced that an aerial gondola was in their redevelopment plans for the Arch. And now, according to this news source, a team of designers has also proposed an aerial gondola in Chicago. The gondola line is planned to start nearby the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive and will glide...
We mentioned this earlier, and now it’s really happening. Creative Urban Projects (CUP) and the Centre for City Ecology (CCE) have teamed up to bring you the City Builder Book Club, an online reading series of books that have shaped our cities. Starting Wednesday, we’ll be reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities...
It’s been a busy week here at the Gondola Project. So let’s take a quick look at some of the highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit. Congratulations to Medellin, Colombia (and San Francisco) for being this year’s winner of the 8th annual Sustainable Transport Awards – hosted by...
I happen to be a closet baseball fan. I readily admit the game is hopelessly boring, but I find it fascinating nevertheless. It should come as no surprise then, that I’m quite fond of the film Moneyball and the book that inspired it by Michael Lewis. I’ve recently been re-reading that book and have come to...
Remember the garden exhibition lift that first appeared in Rostock (IGA) in 2003 then was disassembled and reassembled in Munich (BUGA) in 2005? Turns out, immediately following the BUGA show, the system was once again taken down and rebuilt … on a mountain. Yup, 40% of the system was re-used to construct the Imberg gondola lift at the Steibis ski...
According to Arab News, urban gondolas now appear to be the favoured transit technology for solving the severe transport problems in Makkah. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, governor of Makkah, reviewed the CPT research report (completed at the Center of Excellence for Haj and Umrah Research) and is expected to forward it to the Follow-up Committee of Public Transport...
In recent news, various news media outlets (1,2,3) have reported that we’re about to see the world’s largest bus – Youngman JNP6250G in China. The official statistical breakdown of this public transit behemoth is as follows: 300 person capacity (40 seats, 260 standing) 25 meters (standard bus: 12m) top speed ~80kph Of course, as soon as this...
A few highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit: New 3S gondola project (in Italian) is being proposed in Plose, Italy. It’s expected to connect the city center and a railway station to serve both tourists and skiers. Seems that little information is available in English, any additional...
Last week Translink finally released the Business Case for the Burnaby Mountain Gondola Transit proposal. There were two main findings in the study: Firstly, that the construction of the system would provide enormous benefits to transit riders, Translink and Simon Fraser University. After attaching a dollar figure to those benefits, the benefits could be valued...
For several years now we’ve been collecting information, data, and images on cable transit and other transit related information to create a knowledge hub for everyone. As you also may know, the United States Government is in the process of trying to pass PIPA and SOPA, two censorship bills which could effectively damage the internet and severely...