Given the recent flurry of activity within the urban cable car sector, we took time to update the world map. For a larger version of map, click on the upper right hand corner of the map below or click here. — — PROPOSALS ADDED Albany, New York (July 2016) Busan, South Korea (May 2016) Chicago Skyline, Illinois (May...
Photographer: Photo by Flickr user Dom Pates. About: Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will select stunning captures of CPT lines. We hope this will continue to bring more attention to the technology and provide visually impactful examples of cable car systems worldwide. If you’d like to submit or nominate a picture for our “Photo of the...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: As part of their undergraduate studies, two students from ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) have proposed an urban cable car for Zurich. The system appears to connect commuters from a...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Five groups have responded to the Téléphérique de Brest (Urban Gondola) tender. The proposed budget is reportedly €18 million and the system is scheduled for completion by 2016. The tiny pacific...
Every so often we are confronted with wonderful and mysterious transportation devices (see Chinese Tunnel Bus). Today, we happen to come across the Sistema Monorail Con Funiculares (or the Monorail System With Funiculars) — a conceptual transit system designed by ECOLVIAS from Medellin, Colombia. There’s not much information about this technology but it does make me wonder what type of...
— —— A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: September 15, 2014 marked the opening day for La Paz’s longest urban cable car system, the Yellow Line (La Línea Amarilla). Celebrations were held and passengers packed the system. In...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Reports coming from Lagos, Nigeria seem to indicate that work on the city’s proposed $500 million, 12km urban cable car project may soon begin in November. If this is accurate, then this...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas and cable propelled transit: Look out London, the host of the 2020 Olympics is now beginning a feasibility study which may see a cable car in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district. The urban gondola is proposed...
— A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit: Istanbul, Turkey has officially announced their intentions to build a cable car over the Bosphorus. The system will travel 15 minutes across the Bosphorus strait and connect the districts of Mecidiyekoy...
Note: While not exactly a cable transit system — in fact it’s a pure amusement ride — the Ocean Park Cable Car is significant in terms of its design. It is one of the few cable cars in the world with its line capacity “doubled” via two separate systems operating side by side. Photographer: Photo...