Last week, friend/designer/planner Yen Trinh travelled to London and rode the city’s newest cable car — the Emirates Air Line. Yen is an Australian based urban planner and city enthusiast. On her blog, the City Love Blog, Yen shares interesting urban-themed discoveries from her world adventures. Today, Yen has compiled a short photo essay from...
In an effort to continually improve and expand the offerings on The Gondola Project, each week we’re rolling out a “tweak” to the site. If there’s a part of the website you’d like to see “tweaked” send us an email at gondola (at) creativeurbanprojects (dot) com. As part of last week’s tweak we updated...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE: Around 60 people were stranded mid-air on Wednesday when the Emirates Air Line in London experienced forty minutes of technical difficulties. Water, first aid, and lots of...
From a technical standpoint, we know that urban gondolas can provide many distinct advantages (think low headways, high capacities and etc.). But what about the less tangible technological benefits? We often argue that cable transit has the ability to appeal to the psychological and emotional aspects of riding transit. Now as a case in point,...
On September 5th I’ll be running a workshop at the United Nations’ World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy during a networking event titled “Aerial Ropeways as an Innovative Solution for Urban Transport.” The event is by invitation only, is restricted only to attendees of the World Urban Forum, and space is limited. We do, however, have a few spots...
This is always exciting . . . While small compared to the other major players in the cable transit industry, the Swiss cable car company of Bartholet hasn’t been caught totally unaware of the potential the urban market presents for cable. Last year, the company opened the Vetruse Cable Car in Usti nad Labem, Czech...
In an effort to continually improve and expand the offerings on The Gondola Project, each week we’re rolling out a “tweak” to the site. If there’s a part of the website you’d like to see “tweaked” send us an email at gondola (at) creativeurbanprojects (dot) com. As part of this week’s tweak we’ve begun updating...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit: This is a system we’ve not yet heard about, but apparently, there are already eight firms bidding for the right to install a new “Metro Cable” system in Shillong, India. This...
The Constantine Telepherique in Constantine, Algeria officially held celebrations for its 12 million passengers (in French) last week. Since it opened in June 2008, the system averaged approximately 3 million riders per year. Not too shabby for a 1.5km cable system in a city with only half a million residents. If the statistics hold true, the...
So apparently a few people agree with us . . . As we stated a while back, the London Thames Cable Car (Emirates AirLine) is a fine enough addition to the London skyline, but serves little to no public transit purpose as the system isn’t fully fare integrated into the overall London transport network. This...