Posts Tagged: australia

02
Dec

2014

Design Solves Everything: Reversible Train Seats

Recently an incredibly intelligent individual casually said a few words to me during a meeting: “Design solves everything”. 

Strangely enough, I never thought about design in such an overtly simple manner.

And by pure coincidence, a few days later I found an awesome example of this phrase in action that I just had to share — the reversible train seat on Sydney Trains.



Now I’ve seen a few “traditional” reversible train seats but those are much more cumbersome to use. However with this design, travellers will no longer suffer from “backwards riding” motion sickness.

Why this seating arrangement has not been built into all trains by now is honestly a complete mystery to me. Or could it be that this is just another fine example of the old saying, “we don’t know what we don’t know“.

 



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01
Nov

2014

Weekly Roundup: $100 million Cable Car Proposed for Gold Coast Hinterland

Gold Coast Skyride. Image from Gold Coast Bulletin.

A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit:



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31
Aug

2012

Weekly Roundup

A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit:



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13
Jul

2012

Weekly Roundup: La Paz, Bolivia plans 10km of cable.

A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit:

The bill to authorize the implementation of the CPT lines was approved yesterday in Bolivia’s House of Representatives. Image from la-razon.com.

  • La Paz will soon become the fourth major city in South America to build CPT. There are 3 systems planned. The total length of the lines are approximately 10km and the total investment is worth USD $234 million.


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