#Aerial Ropeways

May 14, 2010
Uncategorized

Palmylink From Around The Net

Check out what the rest of the net is saying about Palmylink: Crazy Gondola Plan For Palmerston Nth Project Links Palmerston North City with Uni Gondola Project Mooted For Palmerston North Something Brilliant In Palmerston North Manawatu Tram Trust Project Launched to Link Palmerston North City and Massey University by Gondola

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May 12, 2010
Announcements

A Good Week For Cable Propelled Transit

(This post was a little late coming in today. So much going on. Please accept my apologies.) It’s been a good week for Cable Propelled Transit and Urban Gondolas:

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May 10, 2010
Thoughts

Forget The Gatekeepers

Idea Suppression is the Gatekeeper’s business and it used to be a good business to be in. The pay was good and the costs were low. If you were in the Gatekeeping business, you really didn’t have to do a whole lot of work to do your job well. To suppress an idea all you...

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May 09, 2010
Background

Clip Show, Part 2

A comment from Wednesday’s Post made me realize that not everyone who encounters this site for the first time are aware of the arguments that are buried in posts from half a year ago. That’s a mistake I made; and I apologize to any readers new to this site. With that in mind, here are 10...

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May 08, 2010
Background

Clip Show, Part 1

A comment from Wednesday’s Post made me realize that not everyone who encounters this site for the first time are aware of the arguments that are buried in posts from half a year ago. That’s a mistake I made; and I apologize to any readers new to this site. With that in mind, here are...

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May 07, 2010
Stanserhorn CabriO

Double Decker Gondolas

This is the Stanserhorn Cabrio, a planned system for a mountain resort in Luzern, Switzerland. The system is not yet built (clearly) but the community is hopeful that they can raise enough money through local shareholders to make it happen. (That last part about ‘community’ and ‘local shareholders’ should catch your attention, but I’ll get to...

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May 06, 2010
Thoughts

Urban Gondolas Are Stupid

Of course they’re stupid. So what? Is that your only argument? Because if that’s your only argument, then you’re in trouble. Because every single person who encounters this idea also says it’s stupid. But then they think about it a little bit more. Then they think about it a lot more. Then they’re up late...

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May 01, 2010
Research Issues

Flickr Galleries

As some of you already know, CUP Projects runs a Gondola Project Flickr Pool of images. Problem is, these pools are unwieldily beasts. Ours already has over 800 images in it and if we really put our minds to it, it could reach into the thousands. Very hard to search, very hard to organize, very...

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Apr 30, 2010
Apr 29, 2010
Thoughts, Urban Planning & Design

Bus vs. Rail

Bus Rapid Transit vs. Light Rail Transit. Currently that’s the major transit debate in the english-speaking world. Each have their advocates and their detractors and each have their own list of positives and negatives. And each want each other’s share of the market. Problem is, BRT and LRT aren’t the only combatants. While BRT and LRT...

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