Posts Tagged: Updates

12
Oct

2010

Help Wanted

For The Gondola Project to move and grow beyond its original 365 Day Mandate, the site’s going to need help. There’s no two ways about it. Based on the comments from last week’s post it appears that readers want the site to continue with a variety of upgrades, most of which are good ideas.

But to get there, we’re going to need help.

So…

If any regular (or irregular) readers of The Gondola Project feel like pitching in an hour or two a week, it’d be great to have you along. There’s so many things to do, and no where near enough time, money or manpower to do it. Among other things, here are some things that are going to be required in the future:

  • Opening and moderating the forum.
  • Engagement with other transit-related websites.
  • Guest posts.
  • Expanding the Flickr Group and image gallery.
  • Reorganizing tabs and categories to make the user interface more user-friendly.
  • Creating a better method (or any method) to allow users to access important previous posts.
  • Conceptual renderings and images.
  • General social networking.
  • Research
  • Translating
  • Anything else you can think of.

Work like this is bigger than any one person. The more people involved, the better chance we have to make this a reality. In its own small, small way, The Gondola Project is a demonstration of that.

If you’d like to help out, please send us an email at gondola (at) creativeurbanprojects (dot) com.



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18
Sep

2010

Weekly Roundup

  • Long Beach report says: City Hall (is) seeking grants from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Federal Transit Agency to fund an “alternative transportation analysis” that would identify ways to connect some southshore locations linking downtown/southshore sites using traditional bus and waterway routes as well as “non-traditional approaches” including “ground-based cable drawn trams and aerial gondola ropeway systems.” Click here to read more.
  • Oakland North is reporting that the long-delayed and controversial Oakland Airport Connector may soon be under construction. Click here to read more.
  • BBC News reports that “A planning application for a £25m cable car across the Thames will be submitted in a few weeks.” Click here to read more.
  • Again from the BBC: Aleem Maqbool reports on a very basic cable system being used in Pakistan as a means to connect isolated villagers devastated after last month’s flooding. Click here to watch the report.
  • The Otago daily times reports on a public meeting held by the Dunedin Cable Car Trust to gauge public interest in their proposal to bring cable back to Dunedin, New Zealand. Click here to read more.
  • Last week San Francisco shut-down the California Street line of its famed cable car system to begin a $24 million rehabilitation and improvement program. It’s the first such rehab since the early 80’s. To learn more, check out the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency’s Press Release or read up about it on SFGate’s report from March of this year.


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