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• The Mayor of Colwood, Canada pitches a commuter gondola for the Royal Beach development. A ferry is being evaluated for the area and if it comes to fruition, the Mayor thinks a 1km-long gondola from the terminal to a parking lot, would allow a higher use for the waterfront property. The next step is a $1 million full feasibility study for the ferry terminal. If the ferry doesn’t move forward, there would be no need for the gondola.

• Bosnia and Herzegovina’s largest ski resort, OC Jahorina, will be building a new lift. The construction of a new 7 km six-seater lift will start in the spring. The new lift will move 2,400 people per hour with a construction cost of $10.2 million (USD).

• Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) campus master plan includes the Burnaby Mountain Gondola. Recently SFU highlighted top news of 2020 which included the campus master plan and the gondola. Metro Vancouver’s transportation network, Translink, has wrapped up the second phase of public engagement for the project. See a related Weekly Roundup here. SCJ Alliance, the parent company of the Gondola Project, is part of this project.

• The funicular at Prague’s Petřín is set to receive new tracks and new wagons. The 90-year-old wagons can no longer be repaired on site, so custom wagons will be built since the existing ones haven’t been manufactured for six decades. Due to settling on the slope of Petřín hill, the subsoils will also need to be stabilized. The renovations will be done over the next four to five years, but the system will only be out of commission for approximately eight months.