A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Chilean president Michelle Bachelet recently announced the country’s ambitious Public Transit Infrastructure Investment Plan (Plan de Inversiones en Infraestructura del Transporte Público). Fourteen major transportation measures were reported, including the implementation of...
The way we define what public transit is tends to be rigid and exclusive. We tend to think of public transit as a public enterprise of many different transit lines (of any given modality) criss-crossing a large city. But then along comes something like the Santorini Cable Car to make one question that assumption. Shown...