Considering how nascent the idea of urban gondola transit in Calgary is, it’s incredible to see how the media has pounced on it – and in some situations gotten the story completely wrong. More than likely, the media attention has been little more than a light-hearted distraction from the more serious business of Canada’s Federal...
Over the weekend I was interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s CBC Radio One for a piece on urban gondolas in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The story and interview was broadcast today on CBC Radio One and you can listen to the full story and interview(s) here.
These are a few of the more intriguing tidbits I learned about New Zealand while in Wellington to attend the New Zealand Planning Institute’s annual conference. Most of the lessons were learned via heresay, gossip, first-hand observation and rumour, so take them for what they’re worth. Time hasn’t permitted me to double-check any of the...
No big news this week in cable, hence no Weekly Roundup. So instead, I thought I’d share with everyone a bizarre thing I stumbled upon the other day. Take a look at the two pictures below. Can anyone spot the difference? Furthermore, can anyone explain the difference? (Caveat: Aside from being optimized for the web,...
Sometimes life is just weird. Last week the issue of dwell times pretty much dominated conversation and discussion around these parts at The Gondola Project (here and then here). The main issue was whether or not dwell times were a real problem and if so, what solutions could be engineered. And then – by some...
At the end of this month I’ll be giving two talks in Wellington at the New Zealand Planning Institute’s annual conference. I’ll be discussing – what else – urban gondolas, this website and the issue of disruptive technologies and insurgent ideas. As a fair bit of The Gondola Project’s readership hails from New Zealand, I’m...
The last couple of weeks were particularly busy for me with more travel, meetings and presentations than usual. I’m very sorry for the lateness of posts, and the sometimes thin content therein. I was also not very attentive to moderating and answering comments – trying to catch up on those right now. Know that I’ll...
Plans for a new Perth Waterfront redevelopment have been released by the State Government with a $440 million (AUD) price tag. Among the highlights? A gondola. Not too much information, but apparently the $30 million gondola system would connect the foreshore to Kings Park. Decision on whether or not to build the gondola will occur...
Yesterday I asked people to consider the implications of two images of relatively obscure gondola transit systems, the Madrid Teleferico and that Ocean Park Gondola. These systems reinforce the idea that “stacking” or “doubling” of a gondola line is possible. The implications are the very same I outlined in a previous post about the Sugarloaf Double...