Posts Tagged: Merida Cable Car

28
Sep

2012

Weekly Roundup: A Lego Cable Car?

Charming, but it doesn't make me want to buy it right now.

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

  • As part of a plan to rebuild Venezuela’s tourism sector, construction work is under way to reconstruct the Mérida Cable Car – once the longest and highest Aerial Tram in the world.
  • A Lego enthusiast campaigns to have San Francisco’s iconic cable cars immortalized in a Lego set – unfortunately, he’s only imagining it in a hyper-miniaturized and stripped-down form. I say, if you’re going to do it, do it right and go all the way. Give it the full-on treatment that VW’s famous Camper recently received:

Now that's a Lego set I want to buy right now. (In fact, I hate to admit it, but I already did.)



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23
Feb

2012

Teleférico de Mérida Reconstruction

Located at an altitude of 4,765m, the Merida Cable Car is amongst the highest cable system in the world. Image from Photobucket.

After operating for nearly 50 years, the Teleférico de Mérida in Venezuela finally reached the end of its service life in 2008 – it is currently undergoing modernization. Thanks to an informative thread from Skyscrapercity (in Spanish), we found a cool time-lapse video of the cable system’s reconstruction we wanted to share. Check it out.



The system is scheduled to open later this year. As part of its reopening, it will feature an exhibition which will display mechanical parts from the old system as well as a brief run through on it’s history. Here’s a sneak peek of it what visitor’s should expect.




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