(Voluntary Disclosure: Managers and Consultants associated with St. Louis’ CityArchRiver2015 interviewed me last month to assist them in understanding cable propelled and urban gondola transit. I received no compensation for this interview and the opinions expressed below are my own.) The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (also known as the St. Louis Gateway Arch) is easily...
Sometimes things just arrive in your inbox and you have no idea what it means. Take this for example: I would sincerely love to know more about this project. There are clearly some production values behind it and the involvement of the Arena Plaza shopping mall suggests this might be something more than someone’s hobby....
Check out this. What’s so important about it? Discuss. An explanation tomorrow.
As it’s the new year, a lot of blogs are posting things like their “10 most popular posts of 2010.” And while I considered doing something similar, I realized it wouldn’t make a lot of sense given that the 10 most popular posts are already listed on the widget in the upper-right corner of this...
As it’s the new year, a lot of blogs are posting things like their “10 most popular posts of 2010.” And while I considered doing something similar, I realized it wouldn’t make a lot of sense given that the 10 most popular posts are already listed on the widget in the upper-right corner of this...
During this year’s holiday season, The Gondola Project will not be posting new content between December 24th and January 1st. Happy Holidays to all Gondola Project readers old and new! See you in 2011!
A quick look at some of the statistics that make your cities work (or not): Cost to ride taxi in Delhi: $0.90 Cost to renew Chicago transit station: $4 million Year of Chinese tunnel bus: 2010 Year of New York tunnel bus: 1969 Speed: 60mph Speed of Swiss “Jetman”: 200km/h Speed of prototype HSR in...
…is one of the largest manufacturers of public transit technologies in the world. And guess where they began. They started out building snow-mobiles. Feel free to draw your own comparisons.
For some reason, WordPress glitched up and moved around 2 dozen recent comments to the trash. My apologies to anyone whose comments were accidentally deleted. I’ve restored them and all should be good now. If you notice any of your comments missing, please post a comment in the appropriate section and I’ll go digging for...