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Oct 30, 2020
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Weekly Roundup: Looking at Systems in a New Way

Park City, Utah is considering an aerial gondola network. The City hired private consultants to conduct a preliminary feasibility study to explore connecting four major locations via a gondola. One of the central goals in Park City’s Vision 2020 is transportation innovation. The system’s capital cost is estimated to be $64 million with an operations and maintenance...

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Oct 23, 2020
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Weekly Roundup: Queueing Up for a New Season

Colorado has released COVID-19 guidelines for the state’s ski areas. The guidelines include items such as: maintaining social distancing of six feet, reduction of gondola and chair lift capacities, and new trip cancellation policies. Ski areas must submit their COVID-19 procedures to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for approval before opening for...

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Oct 16, 2020
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Weekly Roundup: Systems to Support Tourism

After receiving preliminary approval from the United States Forest Service, Snow King Mountain Resort in Wyoming is moving forward with a new gondola. The resort has made a commitment to Leitner-Poma to purchase a gondola and ensure lift construction for the summer of 2021. The base of the new gondola will replace the Cougar lift which will...

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Oct 09, 2020
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Weekly Roundup: Evaluating All Options

Translink received over 10,000 survey responses for the proposed Burnaby Mountain Gondola in Canada. They are currently evaluating the responses to ultimately select one of three gondola routes. The system is expected to see 25,000 trips daily with a queue time of one minute. The estimated cost of the gondola would be approximately $197 million,...

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Oct 02, 2020
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Weekly Roundup: A Bus, but also a Cable Car?

The Sea to Sky Gondola company is offering a $250,000 reward related to vandalism that happened in September. The Canadian attraction is looking for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for cutting the cable. This was the second time the gondola has been vandalized. The first incident cost the company more than $5...

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