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...
The last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind at The Gondola Project and I thought it would be appropriate to update our regular readers on what’s been going on: A recent link to The Gondola Project on Reddit caused a sustained traffic spike on the site. Post-spike, our traffic is now double what it...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit: Telluride and nearby municipalities are looking to create a Regional Transit Authority (RTA) to better coordinate regional transit planning. However, exactly how a new RTA will affect funding and financing for...
Riding public transit is often a comfortable and enjoyable experience. Most people are quiet, are respectful of the personal space of others and typically, will mind their own business. However, if you ride transit regularly, you’ll know that this isn’t always the case. Every so often you’ll come face to face with one (or few)...