Flickr isn’t immediate. After something new is built in the world, it takes a good few months to a year for the flickr community to build up a sizeable collection of images of whatever that new construction may be. Takes even longer for a good body of Creative Commons images to build up. Nevertheless, with...
There’s no nice way to say this, but here goes: Had the Metrocables of Medellin and Venezuela been built in a place like Denver, Copenhagen or Zurich, this conversation about cable transit would be entirely different than it is now. Cities would be building these things faster than the industry could keep up. We wouldn’t...
Back in October, I brought notice to Rio’s Complexo do Alemao Teleférico. In that post I stated that based upon available information, the system was to be operational by the end of this year. Unfortunately in late November, Rio and the Complexo do Alemao favela were witness to a nasty battle between insurgent drug cartels...
With virtually no attention from the English-speaking world, Rio de Janeiro is about to become the third major city in South America to open a Cable Propelled Transit system. Located in the Complexo do Alemao group of favelas in northern Rio de Janeiro, the system appears to have been spurred by social mandates similar to...