Posts Tagged: new york times

16
Jan

2015

Weekly Roundup: New York Times Hearts Squamish; Rough Guides Features Sapa; Kedarnath Ropeway Update

Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, BC. Image by Flickr user Stephen Rees.

Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, BC. Image by Flickr user Stephen Rees. (Creative commons.)

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

If You Can Make It There… (Canada)
Squamish, B.C. made The New York Times’ list of must-visit places for 2015. Naturally, one of the main attractions highlighted by the Grey Lady is the city’s Sea to Sky gondola.

Longer! Higher! Easier! (Vietnam)
Also in tourism news, Rough Guides recently named the impending Sapa cable car to the peak of Mt. Fansipan in Vietnam’s Lao Cai Province as one of the Top 9 new tourist attractions to visit in 2015. The system, which is slated to open in September, will be the longest and highest in the world.

Ropeway Pilgrimage (India)
Despite earlier snags in the plan to link Kedarnath Temple with a last-mile ropeway, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat told a gathering of the Hoteliers Association that the project is a go. According to Hill Post, the 3.5 km ropeway would help provide access to the site, whose surrounding area was devastated by a flood in 2013.



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19
Aug

2014

NYT: Subway in the Sky – La Paz

Even though we’re now seeing more and more Cable Propelled Transit (CPT) systems being implemented around the world, mainstream North American media has, arguably, paid little attention to urban gondola lifts.

This past weekend, however, New York Times flew their correspondents down to La Paz and documented the city’s Red Line, — or what they cleverly termed, “Bolivia’s Subway in the Sky”.

They even made a short film about it and interviewed locals what they thought of their brand new cable car.

The article is a wonderful inside look into how the cable system is not only transforming the city’s public transit network, but how a cable car line is actively breaking down cultural and social stigmas.



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