A few highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Cable Propelled Transit: What’s your vision of New York in 2040? This author sees gondolas! Review of the new Rio Cable Car from a layman’s perspective. Hopefully with more Urban Gondola systems around the world, less people will refer to them as “Carny Grade Transit”...
Hello all and welcome to Forum Fridays. As Steven mentioned here, Fridays are now be dedicated to the Gondola Project Forum. For starters I’d like to tell everyone that yes! the Gondola Project has a forum. It’s still fairly new and despite some of the rather lengthy and epic conversations that often appear in the...
Yesterday’s post High Speed Rail in China – Theft or Innovation? (Part 1) looked at ownership of ideas and innovation, specifically in terms of China’s role in the the advancement of HSR technologies. Following that train of thought (couldn’t help myself!) today I’ll look at what this means for the CPT industry, starting the discussion...
As I mentioned last week, I will be taking a ~ 1 month hiatus/vacation from The Gondola Project starting today. In my place will be Nick Chu, Julia Padvoiskis and Ryan O’Connor. Here’s how your weeks will pan out for the next month: MONDAYS. Info-graphic by Julia Padvoiskis. An attempt to resurrect our ill-fated “cablegraph”...
It’s cheap. It’s German. It’s only €50,000. And it’s on eBay.
A quick look at some of the things that make Urban Vertical Farming in your city work (or not): Average distance ingredient in a meal in US is grown away from home: 1500 miles Amount of energy global industrial food system accounts for in worldwide fossil fuel consumption: 21% Number of farmer markets in US...
Reminiscent of recent tourist-based urban gondola systems that seem to be popping up everywhere lately (such as Portugal’s new Teléferico de Gaia), the new Ordu Teleferik in Turkey opened just weeks ago and is decidedly urban – at least for the first half of its length. Take a look:
I don’t know how (or why) this happens (take Rio, for example), but somehow the Metrocable in Manizales, Colombia has completely slipped under the collective radar of the english-speaking world – for the last 2 years! From the little we currently understand, the Manizales Metrocable opened in 2009, system carries 1,400 pphpd, has three total...
The practice of insisting upon a singular public transit technology to the exclusion of all others with no strong justifiable reason. An unwillingness to admit to the weaknesses and failings of an idolized public transit technology. A rejection of multi-modality in public transportation. A preference for uni-modal models of public transportation when applied solely to...
(Voluntary Disclosure: Last week I was retained by Translink – at their behest – to meet with stakeholders in Vancouver associated with the Burnaby Mountain Gondola proposal; tour the proposed route of the gondola; and give a presentation to select staff of Translink and CH2M Hill on best practices in Cable Propelled Transit systems. The...