- The Los Angeles Aerial Rapid Transit (LA ART) has announced the preferred aerial tramway route from Union Station to the Dodgers Stadium. The preferred route, known as the Broadway Alignment, will travel along Alameda Street to an intermediate station “Chinatown/State Park Station” to an intermediate turn station “Broadway Station” then to the “Dodger Station”. The Broadway Alignment will have a travel time of seven minutes and move up to 5,000 people per hour per direction. See a previous Weekly Roundup here. SCJ Alliance is part of this project.
- A tender has gone out for a cable car that would connect Warsaw’s Old Town with the district of Praga-Północ. The cable car would span over Poland’s ninth longest river, the Vistula. The idea was first promoted in 2005 by the Head of Warsaw’s Office and includes a cultural centre and viewing tower. There is opposition based on the impact a cable car could have to the site’s status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- The provincial government in Canada is deciding between two competing visions for the mountains above Bridal Falls. One of the proposed projects is the Cascade Skyline which is a sightseeing cable car with a similar model to Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish. The other proposal is an all-season mountain resort similar to Sun Peaks near Kamloops. The ministry of forests has asked the local government and First Nations for their feedback on both proposals to help determine which project is the best use for the area.
- Italian police have arrested three people over the cable car accident that killed 14 people on Sunday, May 23. The investigation showed a temporary clamp had been placed on the brake to prevent it from engaging at unintended times and interrupting rides. When a cable snapped, the clamp prevented the brake from engaging. The accident is Italy’s worst cable car disaster since 1998, when a U.S. military jet cut the cable of a ski lift, killing 20 people.