As I’ve stated throughout this series, the Yenimahalle Teleferik (Ankara Cable Car) is remarkably innovative in its station design and can lay claim to a wide variety of ‘firsts.’ Those firsts are all related to matters of urban design, though not from a technology perspective. All of the innovation is in its relationship to the...
You cannot ignore Station Four (Şentepe Station) of the Yenimahalle Teleferik (Ankara Cable Car). It’s dominant in a most unexpected way. Like every other station along the Yenimahalle Teleferik before it, Station Four points the way to the future of urban gondolas and cable cars while not exactly mastering it.
Station 3 (TRT Vericiler Station) of the Yenimahalle Teleferik (Ankara Cable Car) is probably the most controversial of all the stations along the line. The station feels and looks not unlike a maintenance garage. And there’s a reason for that — it is a maintenance garage. Station 3 was the original end station of the first phase...
Station Two (Yunus Emre Meydan Station) of the Yenimahalle Teleferik, as I stated in the last post, is by far the most innovative of the Ankara Cable Car’s stations. Taking up the entirety of an irregularly-shaped traffic island makes it unique beyond compare. There is simply no station that we know of that is configured...
When I first started this system profile earlier in the week, I’d originally intended to discuss the stations collectively. But once I sat down to do so and began reviewing my notes and photos, I realized that was a ridiculous idea. Firstly, I had way too many photos of each station to fit within a single...
Before we move onto discussions about each individual station, you’ll find some favourite images taken during my tour of the Yenimhalle Teleferik / Ankara Cable Car. Click ‘more’ to view the photos after the jump.
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before — A city in a developing or newly industrialized economy has some significant topographical challenges in an outlying neighborhood. To solve the problem, they build a four-to-six station long urban gondola system that’s between two-to-four kilometers in length with an offered capacity of two-to-four-thousand pphpd. The citizens...
Over the last year, the capital of Turkey, Ankara has quietly built and opened a three-section urban gondola system that is perhaps the most important since Medellin, Colombia’s Metrocable Linea K. Built by Leitner, the Yenimahalle Teleferik (as it is known to the locals) may not be as long a system as the new Mi...