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Feb

2021

Weekly Roundup: Several New Systems Set for North America

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Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp. in Colorado announced its biggest redevelopment project since its opening in 1963.
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  • The Edmonton Gondola is awaiting city council approval of an agreement before continuing with detailed design. During a council’s urban planning committee meeting more than 30 people spoke in favor of the gondola and recommended the council approve the project. The $155-million gondola project would require no public funding, be integrated with public transit, and could potentially bring the city revenue through land leases needed for the system (e.g. tower bases). See a related Weekly Roundup hereSCJ Alliance, the parent company of the Gondola Project, has been retained to provide gondola expertise for this project.
  • A 100-year-old aerial ropeway cart in England has emerged from a Cornish cliff. The cart has begun to peak out of the cliff as it slowly erodes. The ropeway system was built to transport tin-rich sand up the cliffs to the Gwithian Tin Sand Works facility. The ropeway while efficient, was not a complete success so a tunnel was built to transport the sand. The Gwithian Tin Sand Works closed at the beginning of World War II, but ropeway remains still exist.


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