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Aug 13, 2015
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Cologne Cable Car (Kölner Seilbahn)

Durch die Nacht schweben und Köln genießen! Bei der „Kölner Nacht der Seilbahn” könnt Ihr heute bis 24 Uhr mit der Seilbahn fahren (letzte Hin- und Rückfahrt jeweils 15 Minuten vorher). Die Seilbahn ist übrigens eine 100%ige Tochterfirma der KVB. Foto: KVB-Archiv #Menschenbewegen #kvbkoeln #kvb #Seilbahn #ropeway #cablecar A photo posted by Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG...

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Aug 10, 2015
Uncategorized

Doppelmayr – Leader in 3S Technology

“What does the name 3s mean?” is a question we are often asked by decision-makers, who are considering gondola technology for their cities. We would love to say something sibilant and succinct, like Safe, Speedy and Stabilized. But the truth is more mundane. The name 3S comes from the German drei Seile, three ropes, because...

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Aug 07, 2015
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: Lima to Get Two New Urban Gondolas by 2017

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....

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Aug 06, 2015
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Teleferico do Alemao

Teleférico do Alemão #riodejaneiro A photo posted by Joāo Paulo Engelbrecht (@jp_engelbrecht) on Nov 2, 2013 at 7:10pm PDT

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Aug 05, 2015
Announcements, Cable Transit Industry, Updates

New Urban Gondola in Bogota

  Bogota, Colombia’s capital city of 6.7 million residents, will be adding an urban cable car system to its transit network. Doppelmayr, the world leader in ropeways, won and signed the contract to build this aerial transport system on July 16, 2015. Similar to many other urban cable cars in South America, Bogota’s detachable gondola will be...

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Aug 03, 2015
Thoughts

Curtain Sales: Privacy, Urban Areas & the Public Good

Spying on roof terraces from above #lapazcablecar #thankevo #bolivia #weatheredpink #corrougatediron #clothesline #shadowplay #notmypanni A photo posted by Amanda Littlewood (@muscari_haze) on Jul 31, 2014 at 1:25pm PDT   Suddenly this week, popular media outlets began reporting the big “news” from Bolivia. That is, La Paz’s “Subways in the Sky” will be tripling in size over the...

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Jul 31, 2015
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: West Learns of Big Cable Car Project, Free Rides in Singapore

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,...

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Jul 30, 2015
Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Homemade River Cable Car (Chongqing, China)

Two judges in Chongqing have taken an extreme approach to bring the circuit court into a remote village in the mountains: by risking their lives traveling across a river on ropes. The ropeway, set up by a villager ten years ago, has always been the only way in and out for people in the village,...

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Jul 29, 2015
Just For Fun, Oddities, Tourism

Please Don’t Try This At Home

Recently we ran an opinion piece about private gondolas, asking whether they may be a sign of things to come. But nothing prepared for us this precarious looking “trenino” or little train in Vernazza, Italy. Essentially it’s a mini-monorail and it turns out they’re not uncommon here. Vernazza is one of the “Cinque Terre”, five...

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Jul 24, 2015
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: Cable Car Report Released in Geneva; K’Nex Challenge Aboard the Emirates Air Line

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...

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