Posts Tagged: Teleférico de Gaia

15
Jun

2015

Porto/Gaia Part 1, Teleférico de Gaia

Teleférico de Gaia at bottom station. Image by Nicholas Chu.

Teleférico de Gaia integrated into the urban environment. Image by Nicholas Chu.

The Teleférico de Gaia graces Portugal’s second largest city, Porto – a charming, old-world burg built on the steep banks of the Douro River. The system has been operational since 2011, but has yet to catch people’s attention outside of Portugal — and arguably even within Portugal itself.

It is difficult to ascertain exactly why, but there are many possible reasons. For one, there’s nothing particularly controversial (for better or for worse) about the system from a reporter’s perspective. So naturally, the media hasn’t picked it up.

After all, in this day and age of instant gratification and internet rage, a news story about a well designed and integrated gondola isn’t exactly headline material for major media outlets. This is unfortunate since the Teleférico de Gaia deserves a lot more credit and attention that it has garnered so far.

Maybe this system tour will help break the silence and shed some light on an important urban cable car.

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06
Feb

2014

Cable Car Photo of the Week: Teleférico de Gaia

Teleferico de Gaia. Image by Flickr user Shemsu.Hor.

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Photo by Flickr user Shenmsu.Hor.

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Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will select stunning captures of CPT lines for our newest feature: Cable Car Photo of the Week. We hope this will continue to bring more attention to the technology and provide visually impactful examples of cable car systems worldwide.

If you’d like to submit or nominate a picture for our “Photo of the Week”, we’d love to hear from you. Leave a comment below or send us an email at gondola@creativeurbanprojects.com. 



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16
Mar

2012

Weekly Roundup

Cabins flown to the top for installation in the Teleferico de Merida, Venezuela. Image via Skyscrapercity.

A quick look at some of the highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit:

 



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08
Apr

2011

New Urban Gondola Opens: Portugal’s Teleférico de Gaia

The new Teleférico de Gaia in the Porto-region city of Vila Nova de Gaia. Image via Nabicicleta.

So apparently last week the port wine-producing city of Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal is the latest city in the world to open an urban gondola transit system. Similar to the Complexo do Alemao Teleférico in Rio de Janeiro, this one opened without a peep from the English-speaking world.

As such, we know virtually nothing about it.

All we do know comes from a few youtube videos and the english translation of the original portuguese wikipedia entry:

  • Very short – only 562 meters in length.
  • Clearly a basic MDG system (see videos below)
  • Based upon cabin design, more than likely a Doppelmayr-built system (see videos below).
  • Tourist-oriented.
  • 2 stations.
  • Estimated capital costs of €10 M. This seems like an absurdly high number for an MDG that’s so short. At the same time, most of the cost is in terminals, so one could reasonably assume that the system would cost ~ €10M whether it was 250 meters, 500 meters or 1,500 meters long.

Any info anyone can find about this would be appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

 



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