Last fall I had an opportunity to tour and document Barcelona’s Montjuïc Cable Car and Funicular. This is the second of two parts documenting the Cable Car system. For the first part, click here. And to learn more about the Barcelona Funicular, click here. Perhaps what’s most interesting about the Montjuïc Cable Car is its ownership structure. Unlike...
As we know, public transit agencies rarely implement cable transit solutions within their networks (hence this website), and when they do, they tend to implement them not as fully-integrated components of their network but rather as isolated, independent components (here or here for example). They’re treated kind of like that awkward, sticky-fingered step-cousin you only...