The Urban Land Institute in Toronto (ULI) is hosting its innagural Urban Ideas Competition. Amongst the various fine submissions is—you guessed it—a conceptual Urban Gondola/Cable Car system for Toronto’s waterfront cleverly dubbed the Toronto ShoreLine (check here and here for the submission’s two boards). Now, despite the fact that The Gondola Project’s home base is...
Dear Torontonians: You might have seen today in the Toronto Star a story about our work. The story featured an interview with myself, Steven Dale, the Founder of The Gondola Project. Typically, such press causes The Gondola Project to experience a rather large surge in traffic from whatever given geographic region is discussing the idea. As...
Any transit geek (whether armchair or professional) worth his salt knows Jarrett Walker and his Human Transit blog. Despite the fact that we don’t always see eye-to-eye on certain issues, I’m a big fan of his work. Jarrett has a wonderful way of distilling the complexity of transit into simple to understand and rational arguments...
All the best to our loyal readers. Have a safe and happy holiday season. The Gondola Project will resume regular posts on January 6th, 2014. Thanks for all the support everyone!
For reasons too tedious to recount here, I recently came upon this wonderful satirical quote by the English scholar F.M. Cornford: “The Principle of the Dangerous Precedent is that you should not now do an admittedly right action for fear you, or your equally timid successors, should not have the courage to do right in...
We often make the point around these parts that cable car infrastructure and architecture are two completely different things. Sure, the architecture is at least partly limited by the space requirements of the cable car infrastructure, but that’s about the extent of it. I was reminded of that when I recently stumbled across the Dallenwil-Wiesenberg Cable...
Last week was a bit of an anomaly for us here at The Gondola Project. Both Nick and I had conferences all at the same time in four different cities in four different time zones. Meanwhile, today is Canadian Thanksgiving. Meaning, of course, that family obligations only complicated the past week. Suffice it to say,...
Wishing every one of our regular readers a safe and happy Labour Day Long Weekend! We’ll be back on Wednesday as always.
Due to the record storm we’ve had in Toronto, our post this week will be delayed slightly as we scramble to get everything up and running again. It was transportation chaos throughout the City and we’ve had a heck of a time getting to the office. Subways, regional train service and many major highways were...