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REVIEW: My Kind of Transit: Rethinking Public Transportation in America
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View ArticleThe Underappreciated Cable Car
Dale writes, "San Francisco cable cars are not so much cable transit as they are a living history of cable transit's past. So why, then, is cable re-emerging as a technology of choice - preferred to...
View ArticleSouth America Incubates Cable Propelled Transit
The continent that gave the world Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is at it again, this time transforming ski lift style urban gondolas into fully-integrated parts of their public transit networks.Is it absurd...
View ArticleCable Cars Could Link London's 2012 Olympics Venues
The plan will cost £25 million, but will be financed privately. Publication Date: Mon, 07/05/2010
View ArticleS.F.'s Market Street Railway Celebrates Sesquicentennial
It began as the first railway on the west coast - steam powered, "dirty, noisy and ultimately a financial flop, but it was the start of something big" in that it began the transition of the corridor...
View ArticleWhen Funicular Isn't Just A Funny Word
The Wellington Cable Car meets Walker's 4 requirements: "...it's a straight line, running at high frequency, through high density, where competitors are at a disadvantage."So what is a funicular,...
View ArticleA Cable Car Comeback
It turns out that cable cars, also known as gondola lifts, aren't just for floating serenely over a snow covered mountain. In projects developed over the last decade in Medellin, Colombia, and...
View ArticleThe Piranesian Fantasyland That Runs S.F.'s Mobile Monument
The brick building at 1201 Mason Street houses the "surprisingly fantastic"San Francisco Cable Car Museum.Publication Date: Wed, 11/28/2012
View Article'Modern' Cable Car Coming to Oakland in 2014
Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle's transportation reporter, describes the 'back to the future' technology, progress, and background of the embattled "connector" from the Coliseum/Oakland...
View ArticleThanks to SF's Cable Cars, Bell Tolls for City's Public Transit
"Cable cars are often blithely referred to as the sole transit system on the National Register of Historic Places.Publication Date: Wed, 04/24/2013
View ArticleInterdisciplinarity and the Equitable City
On Urban-Think Tank, a design firm working at the intersection of architecture and urbanism to further environmental justice.
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How San Francisco Integrates Historic Rail Lines into its Transit System
Lovers of vintage rail travel can get their fill in San Francisco.Los Angeles County planner Clement Lau recently took a trip to the Bay Area city and shares what he learned about how streetcars and...
View ArticleWhen Other Transit Modes Won't Do, There's Always Sky Gondolas
Keanin Loomis, a resident of Hamilton, Ontario has sky-high visions of a cable car system that will whisk commuters around the area's often difficult topography.Publication Date: Wed, 02/17/2016
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REVIEW: My Kind of Transit: Rethinking Public Transportation in America
It is always gratifying as Tags: StreetcarsDisneylandFunicularsCable Cars
View ArticleThe Underappreciated Cable Car
Dale writes, "San Francisco cable cars are not so much cable transit as they are a living history of cable transit's past. So why, then, is cable re-emerging as a technology of choice - preferred to...
View ArticleSouth America Incubates Cable Propelled Transit
Another ingenious solution to an urban transit dilemma has made its way north from the cities of Latin America. Recently opened in Portland, Metro Cables have already provided a low cost rapid transit...
View ArticleCable Cars Could Link London's 2012 Olympics Venues
The plan will cost £25 million, but will be financed privately. Publication Date: Mon, 07/05/2010
View ArticleS.F.'s Market Street Railway Celebrates Sesquicentennial
It began as the first railway on the west coast - steam powered, "dirty, noisy and ultimately a financial flop, but it was the start of something big" in that it began the transition of the corridor...
View ArticleWhen Funicular Isn't Just A Funny Word
The Wellington Cable Car meets Walker's 4 requirements:"...it's a straight line, running at high frequency, through high density, where competitors are at a disadvantage."So what is a funicular,...
View ArticleA Cable Car Comeback
It turns out that cable cars, also known as gondola lifts, aren't just for floating serenely over a snow covered mountain. In projects developed over the last decade in Medellin, Colombia, and...
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