Posts Tagged: Site Updates

30
May

2011

Urban Gondola Transit Technology Revisions: BDG

As we move into the slow summer months, we thought it appropriate to take the time and make revisions to the various lessons, modules and primer pieces available on The Gondola Project. The revisions we’re making correct some of the errors and omissions that resulted from creating an online primer text using 20 year old literature to understand a technology that virtually no one actually understands.

Particularly as some of these posts are a-year-and-a-half old (has it really been that long?), we felt it essential to review materials and make sure that what we said then matches what we know now.

As such, we’re trying our best to use the most current and accurate information and data we can get our hands on. At the same time, opinions in the industry vary greatly about what the variety of cable transit technologies can and cannot do and these opinions are often in opposition to one another.

Therefore, please understand that The Gondola Project is meant solely as a guide and should not be relied upon as a lone source of information.

If there are any pages or posts you’d like to see revised, corrected or revisited, please send us an email at gondola (at) creativeurbanprojects (dot) com, or leave us a comment below.

The first revision we’ve made is our BDG Module, which we feel was the primer text most in need of revisions, updates and corrections.



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15
Oct

2010

A Welcome Message

Yesterday, The Gondola Project was linked to by Planetizen, the world’s oldest and largest urban planning-related site on the internet. As a result, traffic has increased dramatically.

In an effort to help ease these new visitors into the topic, I’ve linked to a group of 20 posts from the first few months of The Gondola Project to help explain the site and its position on Cable Propelled Transit (CPT) and Urban Gondolas. I’d also encourage new readers to check out the most popular posts listed on the right hand side of the page as well as the education modules on the bottom right.

This site is intended as a primer on Urban Gondolas and Cable Propelled Transit, but we discuss a lot of transit-related issues as well. This also isn’t a site for zealots. The Gondola Project believes Urban Gondolas and CPT are useful additions to the public transit family. We don’t, however, believe them to be a cure-all. We believe in multi-modality and the exploration of many different forms; Urban Gondolas being one of them.

In the next couple of months, we’ll be rebuilding some parts of The Gondola Project to increase usability and accessibility of past posts. In the meantime, have a look around, ask questions, comment profusely and have an open mind. Urban Gondolas may seem bizarre at first, but they’re well worth figuring out.

– Steven Dale



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