After being shut down for 7 years, Teleférico de Santiago (or Teleférico Parque Metropolitano) is now scheduled to reopen in July 2016. This 2.0km cable car was originally built in 1980 and connected users to the largest urban park in Latin America, Parque Metropolitano. Soon after it opened, it became a popular attraction for both visitors and locals looking...
The construction of a 8-passenger gondola in the Mexican city of Torreón is now underway. Being built by LEITNER Ropeways, this recreational cable car will transport passengers and pilgrims to the top of Noas Hill where a 22m high statue of Christ (Cristo de las Noas) stands. The Christ statue, 3rd biggest in Latin America, took 10...
Significant progress is being made for the Kuelap Cable Car (Spanish: teleférico de Kuelap) in the Amazonas Region of Northern Peru. Twenty six cabins arrived on site last week to facilitate the construction process. Kuelap is an ancient walled fortress inhabited by the Chachapoyas in 600 AD. Situated 3,000m above sea level (asl), this attraction was...
The launch of Germany’s biggest urban cable car project for the Berlin IGA 2017 (English: International Horticultural Exposition) will take place on March 16. To celebrate this ground breaking event, LEITNER Ropeways will be on site with Berlin’s Mayor, Michael Müller. The 1.5km urban ropeway was awarded to the South Tyrolean manufacturer in 2014 and will be the...
Naturally as the world’s 3rd most populous nation and one of the world’s most advanced, the United States is a huge market for any product — and of course, this includes Cable Propelled Transit (CPT). While the US has a few urban ropeways to call its own (i.e. Portland, Roosevelt Island and Telluride to name...
Perhaps this site should be our Gondola Projects, in the plural. One of our ongoing missions is to track and compile the world’s urban gondola (map here). We’ve recently had a little help from cable car connoisseur A Maine Ski Lift Enthusiast. He pointed out two utterly awe-inspiring if somewhat obscure and even bizarre urban...
—— A new video of the Teleférico de Puebla undergoing its testing phase has surfaced online. According to local newspapers, the ropeway will finally open for passenger use in mid-December after a lengthy delay. If I’m reading Google Translate accurately, it appears that the project faced a number of substantial setbacks when it was first announced back...
— — Colombian cities continues to make headways in the field of urban gondola transport. This week, the MIO Cable in Cali, Colombia (pop: 2.3 million) is scheduled to begin operations on September 18. And thanks to the power of Youtube, you can now personally (well, at least virtually) take part in its maiden voyage...
Lecco, Lombardia is a picturesque lake- and mountain-side town of about 50k inhabitants, located about 50km from central Milan. However, because this story is about transportation integration, let’s note that it’s exactly 39 minutes’ train ride from Milan’s magnificent Centrale station — and heavily populated enough to justify several dependable bus lines. Lecco has its...
Last week the state government of Victoria, Australia signed a 50-year lease for a new tourist-oriented gondola on Arthurs Seat. It replaces a 1960 2-person chairlift that was shuttered in 2006 after a series of incidents. The process was long and arduous but necessary, following all the rules. With the lease in place, the Arthurs Seat...