A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit: New transportation plans in Istanbul, Turkey reveal that a cable car is planned travel over the Bosphorus strait. While the project is still within its infant stages, if built, the system...
A quick look at some of the highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit: New cable car project has been announced in Sarawak, Malaysia which will see it connect Pantai Damai and Kampung Pasir Panjang. Since opening in 2003, the Rain Forest Aerial Tram in Dominica has announced that...
A quick look at some of the highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit: The sponsorship of the “London Cable Car” by Emirates Airlines spurs a discussion on The Economist with regards to the commercialization of public transit services in London. While the feasibility report for the cable...
Let’s take a quick look at some of the highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit. An extremely interesting and well-thought out urban gondola proposal has emerged from Seattle, Washington on citytank.org. It looks to connect several popular destinations to the city’s waterfront. Montreal Gazette reports that the...
A few highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Gondola Transit, and Cable Propelled Transit: New 3S gondola project (in Italian) is being proposed in Plose, Italy. It’s expected to connect the city center and a railway station to serve both tourists and skiers. Seems that little information is available in English, any additional...
A few highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Regular Gondolas, and Cable Propelled Transit: In case you’re heading to the middle of the Pacific sometime in the future – specifically the Northern Mariana Islands – a tourist gondola system is currently being proposed, by no other than a man named Heinz Staffler, great...
A few highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Regular Gondolas, and Cable Propelled Transit: We’re really getting spoiled here at the Gondola Project. Another gondola database is released. This time by the Swiss Government and it documents every single cable system in the country. Super awesome! Perhaps another CPT system will soon be...
A few highlights from around the world of Urban Gondolas, Cable Propelled Transit: What’s your vision of New York in 2040? This author sees gondolas! Review of the new Rio Cable Car from a layman’s perspective. Hopefully with more Urban Gondola systems around the world, less people will refer to them as “Carny Grade Transit”...