• Sister Site of Machu Picchu (Peru)
Kuélap, one of the most remote and inaccessible sister sites of Machu Picchu, will soon get a cable car. Construction of the system officially started this week. The cable car will take passengers from the city of Tingo Nuevo to Chachapoyas fortress and reduce travel times from two hours to 20 minutes!
• 10 Hour Wait, FREE! (Singapore)
The word ‘free’ does strange things to people. Last week we mentioned that the Singapore Cable Car was offering complimentary rides to all permanent residents and Singaporeans as part of the country’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Turns out that this might have been too much of a good thing. Thrill seekers flooded the system and the cable car was quickly overwhelmed. By midday, operators warned passengers to stay home since the estimated wait time was up to 10 hours!
• Future of Gondolas As Transport in Telluride a Warm Potato (USA)
Elected officials in Telluride and Mountain Village, Colorado are having trouble coming to a consensus on public transit after 2027. They managed to agree that their gondola is indeed ‘regional transit’ but who who will own it after Mountain Village’s “legal obligations to operate and maintain it ends” in 2027 has been put off for awhile.