For the last 1,000 days we’ve been using The Gondola Project as an information portal for the world to learn about cable cars, urban gondolas and cable propelled transit – and it’s succeeded beyond any of our wildest dreams! As a result, our small little planning consultancy Creative Urban Projects has been experiencing rapid growth –...
(Note: Regular readers will have seen variations on this post in the past. To prevent any future repetition a version of this has been added permanently here.) The Gondola Project is doing better than we imagined. The site now routinely experiences 23,000 page views per month split amongst 8,000 unique visitors – not too shabby...
As this time of year brings reflection, we thought it a good idea to take this week to look back upon The Gondola Project and revisit a few successes from the past year in urban gondolas and cable cars. In today’s installment, we look back at what we believe to be the 10 Most Promising...
As this time of year brings reflection, we thought it a good idea to take this week to look back upon The Gondola Project and revisit of our successes from the past two years. In today’s instalment, we look at the 10 Most Commented-Upon Posts on The Gondola Project from 2011. Note: If you’re new...
As this time of year brings reflection, we thought it a good idea to take this week to look back upon The Gondola Project and revisit of our successes from the past two years. Since we didn’t do such a thing last year (and because the site was just barely a year old), we’ve decided...
Regular readers of The Gondola Project know we’re under going some renovations and changes on the site. But for new visitors, we realized they could land on the site and be completely unaware of the fact. As such, we just wanted to take the time to let new visitors know that if you come across a...
We’ve been undergoing a pretty significant rebuild/reorganization of the site and it’s progressing well. One thing we’ve wanted to do is improve our integration with Flickr and expand our offerings. So while our Image Gallery Page lists only 12 different galleries, we’ve actually created a total of 35. They all can be viewed here. We’ll...
For the upcoming 2 year anniversary of The Gondola Project, we’d like to dedicate a week purely to conceptual gondola plans created by Gondola Project readers. Concept plans such as those created for Pittsburgh, Seattle or Toronto invariably spur some of the most interesting discussions on the site and generate a lot of local interest....
As of this week, The Gondola Project will discontinue posting on Saturdays and Sundays. Recent developments and a large surge in readership have caused us to rethink our strategy and focus on high-quality posts during the prime readership days of Monday through Friday. We’re hoping this will result in a shift from quantity to quality...
Next week Nick, Julia and I will be rehabilitating, refurbishing and revamping The Gondola Project. While the site continues to experience a growing readership and subscriber base, there’s simply too many usability issues. We want to make the site as useful and easy for people as possible and it just isn’t right now. Three things...