A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: After breaking ground in 2010, North America’s newest bottom-supported cable car, the BART to OAK (aka: BART to Oakland International Airport Automated Guideway Transit), will finally open on Saturday. Trains will arrive every...
Without much fanfare or media attention outside of Venezuela, another urban CPT system has opened — the Cabletren Bolivariano. This system is a 2.1km bottom-supported cable liner that’s located in Petare, an administrative division within the greater Caracas area. If Google Translate is accurate, it appears that only half of the system is currently operational. As per...