Back in November of 2009, I launched The Gondola Project as an experiment.
Could I write a post-per-day for one straight year about the little-known application of cable cars in urban environments? And in doing so, could I help change the understanding of the technology to the point where people would (increasingly) accept it as a standard transportation tool?
I did, and a few people took notice.
By the end of that first year, we’d gained significant attention and our readership grew modestly. Today, more than 3 years later, our readership is at an all-time high; cable car systems are increasingly being recognized for their capabilities; and the company behind The Gondola Project, Creative Urban Projects, is growing rapidly.
That growth has allowed us to diversify our experience out into fields not associated with Urban Gondolas and we’re more than a little excited about what’s coming in the new year.
As such, we’re incredibly busy and daily postings on this site are becoming too onerous in the short term. So here are some of the changes that you’re going to see in the coming weeks:
- The Gondola Project Forum is going to be removed. We don’t really want to do that as many people requested its existence, but the continued moderation of the forum is proving to be logistically difficult to the point where only the spammers seem to use it any more.
- The Forum space will be replaced by a new feature to be announced shortly.
- We will continue to post 3 times per week – Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Our hope is to ramp back up to 5 times per week in the future, but some reorganization needs to be done prior to that.
- Our new cable transit services site will officially launch in late February.
- The new Creative Urban Projects site will debut in late February/early March. This is a project we’ve been continually trying to accomplish for the better part of a year now and we’re excited to finally be in a position to do something about it.
Thanks again for everyone’s continued support and readership!
– Steven Dale