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I guess it depends where you live as to how you determine the definition of Gondola. In the Providence/Boston area and Italy it's a boat. In Portland, Or. I never heard the term Gondola, but I heard Cable Car for the one that goes from the riverfront to OHSU.
Yes there has been some confusion on the use of the word Gondola on this forum.
The Roosevelt Island Tram is the only existing urban aerial tram/gondola I can think of in an urban setting. There was a proposal to develop one connecting Governors Island to both Manhattan and Brooklyn a few years ago (design concept by Calatrava, featuring apple-shaped cars), but I think that idea evaporated. Bloomberg: I wanted air
I think an Aerial Gondola can work in some cities opposed to others. In Seattle I think it could be extremely useful. Seattle is growing rapidly and needs a new solution to traveling downtown. Parking downtown is a nightmare and traffic in and out of the city can be brutal. For years they keep talking about making the city more eco-friendly and reducing use of cars but have done little outside of the main downtown area to make any real impact so far. I think a network of Gondolas connecting Fremont to Queen Anne, Queen Anne to Seattle Center; Capitol Hill to SLU and So on and so forth could be a cheaper efficient way of more people around the city. Reduce the need to use cars to get around the city as well as heading towards a greener direction in transportation. If the network was constructed so most people could get around the city using the Gondola, Street Cars and light rail the maneuver through the city without trouble then it would be perfect.
I guess it depends where you live as to how you determine the definition of Gondola. In the Providence/Boston area and Italy it's a boat. In Portland, Or. I never heard the term Gondola, but I heard Cable Car for the one that goes from the riverfront to OHSU.
Yes there has been some confusion on the use of the word Gondola on this forum.
Add New York and New Jersey to that. I had no clue we were talking about (hanging) cable cars. When I hear gondola I think Venice and boats.
Add New York and New Jersey to that. I had no clue we were talking about (hanging) cable cars. When I hear gondola I think Venice and boats.
Yes I forgot about your area also. It's a Northeast thing I guess. I read a number of the posts before I realized, they were not talking about the Italian boats.
Some planners in Montreal entertained this idea as well but it became nothing more than a pipedream. Not sure how far this idea would go in Seattle. //www.city-data.com/forum/montr...l-gondola.html
The one difference between Seattle's gondola project and other cities is Seattle's is already fully funded.
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I think an Aerial Gondola can work in some cities opposed to others. In Seattle I think it could be extremely useful. Seattle is growing rapidly and needs a new solution to traveling downtown. Parking downtown is a nightmare and traffic in and out of the city can be brutal. For years they keep talking about making the city more eco-friendly and reducing use of cars but have done little outside of the main downtown area to make any real impact so far. I think a network of Gondolas connecting Fremont to Queen Anne, Queen Anne to Seattle Center; Capitol Hill to SLU and So on and so forth could be a cheaper efficient way of more people around the city. Reduce the need to use cars to get around the city as well as heading towards a greener direction in transportation. If the network was constructed so most people could get around the city using the Gondola, Street Cars and light rail the maneuver through the city without trouble then it would be perfect.
But wouldn't that be a NIMBY nightmare with gondolas going between all those residential neighborhoods in Seattle? That would surely ruffle some feathers and could be disruptive to quite a bit of property.
But wouldn't that be a NIMBY nightmare with gondolas going between all those residential neighborhoods in Seattle? That would surely ruffle some feathers and could be disruptive to quite a bit of property.
Thought the discription of all they are opposed to was hilarious.
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