If you’ve arrived on The Gondola Project via today’s article at The Atlantic Cities, welcome!
Feel free to take a look around, ask some questions and generally engage with the admittedly bizarre idea of using ski lifts as public transport. You’ll find our small corner of the web to be a generally open group of people, happy to work through all your questions.
A few ideas to help you orient yourselves:
- Most people find our original photo essay on Medellin and Caracas as a good place to start on the subject of cable propelled transit. Our Whitecards are also a valuable tool.
- You need to understand the difference between an Aerial Tram, an MDG gondola and a 3S gondola. I cannot reinforce that point enough.
- Understand that we’re not gondola zealots. We don’t see gondolas as the be-all and end-all of public transit. We simply see it as one among many transportation tools. You’ll find us to be highly critical when we need to be.
- We take our work seriously, but we like to present it in as approachable and fun a manner as possible – it keeps people interested. That’s why we spend time chatting about bizarre stuff like the Chinese Tunnel Bus, Hollywood’s strained relationship with transit and alpine roller coasters.
- We’re not the biggest fans of PRT, but we’re pretty positive on Google’s driverless cars.
Mostly, just be curious and have fun. Enjoy!
For our regular readers and contributors: We try not to toot our own horns too loudly, but I’ll admit it was pretty satisfying to read The Atlantic Cities call us “probably the single most valuable database on the subject (of cable).” Thanks to all of those who’ve supported us over the years!