Photographer: Photo by Flickr user Tim Adams. About: Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will select stunning captures of CPT lines. 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 like to submit or nominate a picture for our “Photo...
Gondola Project reader Tomek recently shared with us link of Heineken’s vision for future urban transport. The Dutch brewing company released the video as part of it’s campaign to encourage men to explore their cities. The ad is an entertaining 2 minutes, but for those short on time, skip to the last 10 seconds! Enjoy. —...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas and cable propelled transit: If you’re a fan of Harry Potter, you might know that the Hogwarth’s Express has been recreated at the Orlando Universal Studios. What you might not know is that the train, is...
Reader John D. from Florida sends us a link which shows us another use for cable technology that we’ve yet to document — Cable Skiing. Instead of having a motorboat pulling a water skier, a cable skier is towed by a electrically propelled rope line. Check it out. — —— Big thanks to John for sharing with...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas and cable propelled transit: In the span of approximately one month since the inauguration of Linea Roja, La Paz’s first urban gondola has transported 1,000,000 passengers, or roughly 36,000 riders per day. If these statistics are...
Photographer: Photo by Flickr user Xuanxu. About: Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will select stunning captures of CPT lines. 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 like to submit or nominate a picture for our “Photo of...
It appears that 3 cable car lines in La Paz-El Alto weren’t enough to solve the transportation challenges in the Bolivian capital. This week, President Morales, has announced plans for the second phase of the city’s Cable Propelled Transit (CPT) network. And this time around, the project is even more ambitious and more grandiose than the last....
After we blogged about portable agricultural cableways last week, we received a number of emails from our readers in response. One of the most interesting messages came from Quentin and he has shared with us a video he found of an aerial farm ropeway operating in Japan. Check it out. — — Unfortunately, beyond this video...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas and cable propelled transit: News report appear to indicate that more cable car lines are in the planning stages for La Paz, Bolivia. The delivery of a new master plan to the country’s president, Evo...
Photographer: Photo by Tim J. About: Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will select stunning captures of CPT lines. 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 like to submit or nominate a picture for our “Photo of the...