If you’ve arrived on The Gondola Project via today’s article at The Seattle Times, 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.
- 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!
– Gondola Project Team
PS: Another good place to start with The Gondola Project is in our ABOUT section and our LEARN ABOUT CABLE TRANSIT sections (accessible through our the header bar above). To save you the hassle of wading through months of old blog posts, we’ve hand-selected a group of older posts to get you up-and-running: