Photographer: Photo by Flickr user Sergis Blog (flickr). About: Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will select stunning captures of CPT lines for our newest feature: Cable Car Photo of the Week. We hope this will continue to bring more attention to the technology and provide visually impactful examples of cable car systems worldwide. If you’d...
The Singapore Cable Car is quite the urban gondola and is known for being a pioneer in many regards. To name a few: it was the first to cross a major harbour, the first to have a glass bottom floor cabin and was the first to have an aerial sky dining experience. And because it...
Purely by chance, I recently came across the above image for a conceptual urban gondola in Bristol, UK from five years back. Notice anything bizarre about it? Regular readers of this site (and a whole industry of ropeway technicians and engineers) will notice immediately that the concept presented is technologically impossible. While turning on towers...
Public transit systems tend to take a beating. They handle thousands, if not millions of passengers each day. And not only that, in some high demand areas, service must be reliable and constantly available. Definitely not an easy feat for operators. For Cable Propelled Transit (CPT) it’s no different. Heavily ridden systems such as the Medellin...
That couldn’t possibly happen here. You don’t know how it works here. People here see things in another way. Things are more complicated here. It’s different here. We couldn’t do that here. All true and no-doubt honestly spoken when said. But here’s the thing: That couldn’t possibly happen here — actually, it probably could. Stuff happens. You don’t...
Last week the New York Times ran an interesting piece on Hong Kong’s historic street-level trams. These double-decker, non-air-conditioned relics are apparently quite the workhorses. According to the Times the trams move 200,000 (220,000 according to Wikipedia) people per day along the 13 km route with 1.5 minute headways between vehicles—and,despite zero government subsidies, they do so...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit: Proving that this whole urban gondola thing has been going on for a while, Reuters presents us with photos of the Georgian city of Chiatura’s 16 remaining Soviet-era cable cars. Governor...
Photographer: Photo by Flickr user M. Maselli (flickr). About: Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will select stunning captures of CPT lines for our newest feature: Cable Car Photo of the Week. We hope this will continue to bring more attention to the technology and provide visually impactful examples of cable car systems worldwide. If you’d...
Ever wonder what it takes to manage and operate an urban cable car? Well DW recently toured the Koblenz Rheinseilbahn and was able to speak to the man in charge, Wolfgang Laas. Wolfgang takes you thru the system and discusses some important points as to why gondolas can actually function better in cities than in alpine...
Last week was a bit of an anomaly for us here at The Gondola Project. Both Nick and I had conferences all at the same time in four different cities in four different time zones. Meanwhile, today is Canadian Thanksgiving. Meaning, of course, that family obligations only complicated the past week. Suffice it to say,...