La Paz-El Alto’s sixth Cable Propelled Transit (CPT) system, the White Line (Spanish: Línea Blanca), was officially inaugurated last Saturday. With its opening, the world’s largest and busiest network of urban ropeways is now more than 60% complete. Thousands of residents, alongside the Bolivian President (Evo Morales), Mi Teleferico’s Executive Manager (Cesar Dockweiler) and the...
Leitner ropeways is proud to be the first company to introduce 3S gondola technology to Northern Europe. Voss Resorts, one of Norway’s top ski and leisure destinations, will be soon connected by a new 3S system that is scheduled to open in summer 2019. While this aerial lift primarily serves a recreational function for winter...
In the last few weeks, interest in urban gondolas has skyrocketed as two major proposals simultaneously made headlines in North America. In Canada, the Edmonton River Valley Gondola was selected as the winner of a local design competition while the Boston Seaport Gondola proposal was revised and re-released for public consumption. As part of the general discourse,...
The San Francisco Transbay development is one of the largest civic and transport projects in the history of the Bay City. Spread over several city blocks and costing $2.3 billion, the redevelopment scheme is anchored by the iconic 61-storey (326m) Salesforce Tower and the 457m long Transbay Transit Center (also known as the Salesforce Transit...
Since Medellin sparked the modern renaissance of Cable Propelled Transit (CPT) systems fourteen years ago with the opening of Line K, the City’s urban cable car network has been growing at a steady and measured pace. In the northwestern district of the City this week, Medellin broke ground on the USD$99 million (COP 298 million)...
— Perhaps it’s a little hard to imagine nowadays, but nine years ago when we first started this blog, easily accessible information on urban gondolas was difficult to find. Valuable materials were mostly hidden away in educational depositories such as the Colorado School of Mines and/or in untranslatable foreign language articles. However, as the internet has by...
The Montjuïc Funicular in Barcelona, Spain has been providing passengers with quick, reliable, and convenient transportation to the hill of Montjuïc since it was built in 1928 for the World Exhibition. The 718m long cable-hauled line was then renewed in preparation for a flux of visitors who arrived in the City during the 1992 Summer...