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4.12.12

ALTERNATIVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT * USA

* Texas - Gondolas Could Be the Next Great Urban Transportation Device

Austin,TXS,USA -Wired, by KEITH BARRY -20 Nov 2012: ... A team of industrial designers were hard at work on plans for a series of aerial gondolas to connect the city. It may sound futuristic, but it isn’t as far-fetched as you might imagine... Roosevelt Island in New York; Medellin, Colombia; and Portland, Oregon, all use some form of gondola as public transit systems. The Wire, from Frog Design, uses a similar design to traverse busy streets... According to the Wire’s designer, Michael McDaniel, a gondola setup allows for the implementation of a public transit system in a busy city while avoiding the thorny and pricey issue of land rights... McDaniel, and Jared Ficklin, they were looking at a photograph of downtown Austin taken in the early 1900s and noticed that all the major arteries were covered in streetcars. Rebuilding those lines would require purchasing land for rights-of-way at high prices, negotiating with owners who may not want to sell, and competing with other forms of traffic on the same roadways...

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