Photographer: Photo by Flickr user eduardorudas. About: At 3.9km in length, Línea Amarilla (Yellow Line) is the longest urban cable car line on La Paz-El Alto’s gondola network (Mi Teleférico). This four station system has a capacity of 3,000 pphpd and is integrated with Línea Verde (Green Line). Every Thursday, the Gondola Project team will...
— — A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: The Green Line (Linea Verde) in La Paz-El Alto officially opened for service yesterday. If that’s not exciting enough, President Evo Morales announced that contracts for 5 more urban...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: The Brest Téléphérique is scheduled to begin construction in February 2015 with a completion date in June/July 2016. Once operational, the system is forecasted to transport 675,000 people each year over a 460m...
Photographer: Photo by Photobucket user ZPLAQ. 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 Week”,...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of urban gondolas, cable cars and cable propelled transit: Le Havre, a French city of 250,000, is currently studying the feasibility of building a network of urban cable cars. The report is scheduled for completion by the end of this...
Even though we’re now seeing more and more Cable Propelled Transit (CPT) systems being implemented around the world, mainstream North American media has, arguably, paid little attention to urban gondola lifts. This past weekend, however, New York Times flew their correspondents down to La Paz and documented the city’s Red Line, — or what they cleverly termed, “Bolivia’s...
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: In just a few weeks time (August 24 to be exact), residents of Hamburg, Germany will visit the polls to vote for or against an urban cable car. If the referendum...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas and cable propelled transit: Work on the other two gondola lines in La Paz are continuing at a torrent pace. Helicopters arrived in the City yesterday to help install the cables for the Linea Amarilla (Yellow...
A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas and cable propelled transit: The Teleférico da Providência in Rio de Janeiro is scheduled to finally open on June 29. While construction of the system was completed last May, an operator for the cable car was...