Photographer: Photo by Flickr user Jon Kristian Bernhardsen. About: A perennial favourite of the Gondola Project, the Pão de Açúcar (or Sugarloaf) cable car in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was included in the Daily Mail‘s 10 most breathtaking gondola rides in the world back in October. This image is a good indicator of why it made the cut....
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit: Rio de Janeiro begins testing their second cable-propelled transit system in Rio’s oldest favela, Providência. The city of Lagos, Nigeria – one of the fastest growing cities in the world –...
A couple highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit: The Philippine Daily Enquirer reports that the Philippines has (with little notice from the outside world, we might mention) implemented up to 100 ropeway systems throughout the country for agricultural purposes. The systems can carry both farmers and their...
Flickr isn’t immediate. After something new is built in the world, it takes a good few months to a year for the flickr community to build up a sizeable collection of images of whatever that new construction may be. Takes even longer for a good body of Creative Commons images to build up. Nevertheless, with...