As we’ve demonstrated before, cable cars, ropeways and gondolas are amongst the safest transit technologies in the world. But that doesn’t mean accidents don’t happen. A few days ago in Pakistan a cable car system snapped, sending 8 passengers plunging into the swollen Indus river below. No survivors were reported. A similar incident occurred last...
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. For this week’s tweak we’ve added and 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: La Paz will soon become the fourth major city in South America to build CPT. There are 3 systems planned. The total length of the lines are approximately 10km and the...
Over the years at the Gondola Project, we’ve learned about and seen many interesting “water-based” CPT systems (i.e. Koblenz Rheinseilbahn, Emirates Air Line, and Teleferico do Parque das Nacoes). Today, we can officially add another cable car line to that list. The name you say? It’s known as the Nandaihe Ropeway and it’s located in China’s Hebei Province...
In city building, there’s perhaps no greater challenge than what we here like to call The Phase 1 Dilemma. The essence of the problem is this: Finding $50,000,000 to fund a ready-made and demonstrably profitable project is (relatively) easy. Finding $50,000 to develop, study and analyze said ready-made and demonstrably profitable project is (virtually) impossible....
A couple weeks back we were doing some research and needed some numbers on ferries. Knowing we have a few readers from Seattle Transit Blog, we fired off an email asking one of their regular contributors for help — after all, Seattle has a massive fleet of ferries. A couple emails back-and-forth over the course...
For this week’s tweak we’ve officially added London’s newest (and coincidentally only) cable car to the Gondola Project. That means we now have a system profile page and a Flickr gallery, both which can be accessed from the Important Cable Systems Page. As the London system is used more and more, both for and after...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit (admittedly, not that much this week): Santiago, Chile announces an open tender to rehabilitate and upgrade an old 3 station gondola system in Metropolitan Park. (Google Translated from Spanish to English...
Most people living in the first world are some of the luckiest individuals on the planet. However, that doesn’t mean we don’t suffer from our own “first world problems”. One such challenge we face is the high rates of obesity in children and adults. In 2010, reports estimated that nearly 50% of the population in...
If nothing else, the London Cable Car raises an interesting question: When should a transit line be fully fare-integrated into a transit network and when should it not. For those unfamiliar, an additional fare is required for people to ride the London Cable Car despite it, ostensibly, being a part of the overall Transport...