Jamestown, North Dakota is planning to make “The World’s Largest Buffalo” statue no longer their biggest tourism draw. Design and planning is complete for a new buffalo theme park, including gondola.
In the article 7 Major Transformations to Solve Urban Inequality, Medellín, Colombia’s Metrocable K line is highlighted. It’s sighted as an example of how investing in safe, non-polluting, and affordable multimodal public transportation services, including cable cars, can tame congestion and connect poor, peripheral or hillside communities with jobs in the city center.
A cable car over the interstate is one solution being looked at in Albany, New York to reconnect the community with the Hudson River waterfront. Currently the major thoroughfare cuts the city off from the riverfront and isolates some of the poorest neighborhoods. The mile-long Capital District Gondola would be an estimated four-minute trip over the freeway system for commuters and tourists, according to a 2016 feasibility study.
