• Téléphérique de Notre Dame d’Afrique (Algiers, Algeria) Algiers has long been one of the capitals for urban cable cars with five systems currently operating in the city. Recently, news reports suggest that the 266m long cable car connecting Notre Dame d’Afrique to Bologhine will soon be back in service. While technicians have been working on...
• Sister Site of Machu Picchu (Peru) Kuélap, one of the most remote and inaccessible sister sites of Machu Picchu, will soon get a cable car. Construction of the system officially started this week. The cable car will take passengers from the city of Tingo Nuevo to Chachapoyas fortress and reduce travel times from two...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Lima Announces Two Urban Gondolas (Peru) President Ollanta Humala announced that the districts of El Agustino and San Juan de Lurigancho will receive two cable propelled transit systems by mid 2017....
A photo posted by Valeria H. – WaterThruSkin (@waterthruskin) on Jul 28, 2015 at 11:47am PDT — A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Western World Learns About La Paz Cable Car Phase 2 (Bolivia) A 6-line, 20.3km,...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Urban Cable Car for Geneva? (Switzerland) Luc Barthassat, Switzerland’s Minister of Transport, commissioned a study in 2014 to analyze the possibility of an urban gondola in Geneva. Last Friday the report...
— —— A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Urban Cable Car Crossing Chao Phraya (Samut Prakan, Thailand) A US$11.7 million cable car is being planned for Samut Prakan, the province 29km south of Bangkok. The cable car...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Pope in La Paz (Bolivia) The entire country of Bolivia welcomes the Holy Father as he tours the country. To ensure security, it seems that the entire Red Line was closed for...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Cable Car Proposed to Solve Last Mile Problem at Large Railway Stations (Paris, France) It’s only a 1km between Paris’s Gare de Lyon (90,000,000 annual passengers) and the Gare d’Austerlitz (30,000,000...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Study Complete in San Diego (San Diego, California) The study for a 2-mile (3.2km) urban gondola from San Diego Bay to Balboa Park is now complete. Estimates predict costs of...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Designs for White Line (Línea Blanca) Unveiled (La Paz, Bolivia) The 5-station White Line is planned to connect the south and north of La Paz. Not only will the project...