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Jul 29, 2014
Just For Fun

Heineken’s Vision for Future Urban Transport

Gondola Project reader Tomek recently shared with us link of Heineken’s vision for future urban transport. The Dutch brewing company released the video as part of it’s campaign to encourage men to explore their cities. The ad is an entertaining 2 minutes, but for those short on time, skip to the last 10 seconds! Enjoy. —...

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May 28, 2014
Just For Fun

Hochzeitsgondel aka The Wedding Gondola

At an elevation of 1455m, Großer Arber is the highest mountain in Germany’s Bavarian Forest and home to one of the country’s most famous ski resorts. The site is popular for its variety of summer and winter recreational activities which includes sightseeing, hiking and much more. After riding a gondola to the peak, visitors can relax...

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May 12, 2014
Just For Fun

The World Bank Reports That No One Reads The World Bank’s Reports

One thing we try and do around here at The Gondola Project is be accessible. Sure we want to be comprehensive, literate and even maybe a little bit smart; but we’re equally committed to finding ways to make the incredibly complicated idea of using ski lifts as public transit easy and fun to understand for...

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Apr 02, 2014
Design Considerations, Just For Fun

Fairy Tale Gondola in Grächen, Switzerland

If you have kids, taking them skiing is probably some of the most fun you can have together as a family. But what happens when just hitting the slopes is no longer enough? Well, the Märchen-Gondelbahn system in Grächen (Switzerland) decided to one-up their offerings by introducing specially designed “Fairy Tale Gondolas”. Since the 2011/2012 season, children...

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Feb 26, 2014
Just For Fun

No idea . . .

This comes from Gareth in London. It apparently appeared this past Valentine’s Day in a local Swiss newspaper. Gareth has no idea what it means and asked me if I could shed some light on the subject as someone who a) knows a bit about gondolas and b) spends a large amount of time in...

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Feb 11, 2014
Just For Fun

Hot Tub Gondola

Hot springs are highly popular in Japan and so are cable cars. So what happens when you put one and one together? This probably is the coolest cable car we’ve seen since the infamous sauna gondola!

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Dec 19, 2013
Just For Fun

Vid of the Day: Daredevils Walk Tightrope Between Two French Aerial Trams

Today’s pic of the day has been pre-empted by something amazing. Enjoy:

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Dec 11, 2013
Just For Fun

The Simpsons in Brazil: Riding the Sugarloaf Cable Car

Over the years, we’ve seen some pretty outrageous and hilarious portrayals of cable cars in Hollywood and popular media. But just when we thought nothing else could top the cable car scene in Moonraker, I think the following clip just might take the cake. If anything, it’s the funniest (if not only) cable car depiction I’ve...

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Dec 09, 2013
Just For Fun, Maokong Taipei

Will Hello Kitty Rescue Taipei’s Maokong Gondola?

We’ve had a lego cable car. Then we had an Angry Birds themed cable car. We’ve even had a sauna gondola. But this is unique. Last week the Taipei Rapid Transit Corp. (TRTC) relaunched the under-performing Maokong Gondola under a year-long promotion called “The Year of Hello Kitty.” The themed attraction is (natch) a Hello Kitty...

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Nov 27, 2013
Just For Fun

Ngong Ping 360: World’s First Bread/Donut Gondola?

Gondola cabins have been replicated and/or transformed into many different things in the past. To name a few, there’s the life-sized Lego cabin in Singapore, the sauna gondola in Ylläs, Finland, and even a gondola vending machine! Well the folks at the Ngong Ping 360 have really outdone themselves and may have created the world’s...

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