This is just a quick note to wish everyone a happy holiday season. The Gondola Project will return to regularly scheduled programming on Monday, Jan. 5. Thanks for all the support!
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Machu Picchu II (Peru) Earlier this year, Peru announced plans to build a cable car to the Kuelap ruins, a mountain fortress built by the “Cloud People” around 500AD. Located...
Photographer: Photo by Flickr user Laura Beasley (creative commons). About: This 5.7-km cable car system, seen here traveling over over Tung Chung Bay, provides a stunning ride to the Po Lin Monastery and Tian Tan Buddha. Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will select stunning captures of CPT lines. We hope this will continue to bring more attention...
Can recreation and conservation co-exist? Ask groups like the Grand Canyon Escalade opposition group Save the Confluence or the anti-Cheddar Gorge Cable Car circle at Keep Cheddar Gorgeous and the answer seems clear—no, they cannot. Yet, of course they can. Recreation and conservation are not mutually exclusive. Look at scuba diving, for example. The current...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Reports indicate that Mexico’s first urban cable car, the Teleférico de Ecatepec, is now 33% complete. The CPT line will be connected to Lines 2, 3 and 4 of the...
Back in October, the Daily Mail posted their list of the most breathtaking gondola rides in the world. The inventory of cable car systems, which included Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Teleferico de Merida in Venezuela, and the rotating Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in California, is impressive, if a little bit obvious. So we...
— — A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: The Green Line (Linea Verde) in La Paz-El Alto officially opened for service yesterday. If that’s not exciting enough, President Evo Morales announced that contracts for 5 more urban...
Photographer: Photo by Flickr user iwishmynamewasmarsha. About: Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will select stunning captures of CPT lines. 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”,...
Recently an incredibly intelligent individual casually said a few words to me during a meeting: “Design solves everything”. Strangely enough, I never thought about design in such an overtly simple manner. And by pure coincidence, a few days later I found an awesome example of this phrase in action that I just had to share...