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21
Feb

2012

What do you get when you combine a group of friends, a few ropes, some carabiners, a video camera …

and a giant rock arch?

Moab, Utah

Fun times in Utah!

Just For Fun

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16
Dec

2011

New London Tube Map (With Emirates Air Line). Image via The Unfogger.

A few highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit:

Controversy erupts over plans to create a Canyons-to-Solitudes “SkiLink” in Utah.

Petone, New Zealand City Council is exploring an urban gondola system up Wainuiomata Hill.

Parti au Service du Citoyen leader Robert Bordeleau comes out against plans for an urban gondola in the Montreal suburb of Laval calling it a ‘gimmick’ and branding the city ‘Disney Laval.’

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18
Nov

2011

A couple highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit:

The community of Grächen, Switzerland gives a cable car to the City of Sarajevo so that it may rebuild the Trebevic Cable Car that was destroyed during the conflict of the early 90’s.

Squamish, British Columbia’s Sea to Sky Gondola moves one step closer to reality.

While not urban, this is certainly an interesting development: The SkiLink gondola project will link the Canyons and Solitude resorts in Utah. The project is intended solely as a transportation system between the two resorts and is expected to “reduce ski season traffic through Big Cottonwood Canyon by as much as 18,000 cars per year. Initially that means around 1 million fewer miles driven per year.” Should be an interesting one to follow.

Apparently former London Mayor Ken Livingstone once rejected current London Mayor Boris Johson’s controversial plans for a Thames Cable Car. As regular readers of this site know, the London Cable Car has been subject to some controversy but began construction earlier this year with the hope it will be complete in time for next year’s Summer Olympics.

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