Posts Tagged: Russia

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2013

Weekly Roundup: CPT Projects Pitched for 2018 World Cup in Russia

Nizhny Novgorod Cable Car – Russia’s first urban gondola. Image by Алексей Белобородов, from Wikipedia.

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

 



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Jun

2012

Social Media to Shame Bad Parking in Russia

Parking for many of us in North America is often taken for granted, particularly for those who reside in the sprawling suburbs. By-laws generally ensure that parking is ample and built to accommodate peak parking demand.

However in many places around the world parking is a scarce commodity, especially in economically rising cities where car ownership is now within grasp for the general populace. This has resulted in many motorists parking haphazardly wherever and whenever they please, regardless of the inconvenience and dangers it causes to other users.

Notably, people in Russia are so fed up with inconsiderate parkers that a digital newspaper named The Village has developed an app to curb this type of behaviour. This app is befittingly named, Parking D*uche and it enables people to upload pictures of bad parking. In turn, pictures are sent to ad banners that are targeted through IP addresses to locations near where these cars were parked. These banners appear as pop-ups on a website and can be removed if they are shared on Facebook.

Publicly shaming these individuals via social media is definitely an innovative approach to mitigating this problem and I’d love to see if this app lives up to its potential. However, it seems to me that humiliating these d*uches on Facebook may have little effect in the long run and could potentially have the opposite effect. After all, d*uches tend to crave negative attention and giving them more attention will probably just feed their appetite to become bigger d*uches.



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07
May

2012

New Urban Gondola Opens in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

The Nizhny Novgorod Urban Gondola was put into operations last month. Image via ropeways.net.

Last month ropeway manufacturer Poma officially completed an urban gondola lift crossing the Volga river in Russia. We first mentioned the Nizhny Novgorod gondola last year and while the completion was a little bit behind schedule, we’re certainly happy to see it finished and in operation.

From the specs available, it’s a curious system. Both impressive in some ways and utterly bland in others.

The system is built on a standard off-the-shelf MDG configuration and operates at a standard 5 m/s or 18 km/hr. It currently offers a limited capacity of only 500 pphpd but is to be expanded to 1,000 pphpd later this year. While only having two stations, those stations are integrated into the public transportation network – and those stations are separated by 3,660 meters! That’s impressive considering the length of other comparable MDG systems.

More impressive is this: Two of the gondola towers reach heights of 82 meters allowing for a 900 m span between those towers. That’s a remarkable feat very uncharacteristic of standard MDG installations. Spans like that are more typical of Funitels or 3S systems. Always nice to see advancement and innovation.

Given the time, distance and cost involved to get a tour of the system, I highly doubt we’ll have any first-hand information anytime soon, but in the meantime, you can checkout ropeways.net to learn a little bit more about the system.

(Interesting side note: Take a look at the image above and the other images available on ropeways.net. Focus on the stations. Now compare those to the images and renderings we published last year. A little bit different, no?)



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Nizhny Novgorod Gondola
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