The Société de transport de Laval (STL) announced its intention, today, to carry out a feasibility study to determine whether it would be appropriate to put an aerial tramway into service on its territory. Ville de Laval, Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) and Hydro-Québec all support this decision.

A number of major cities in the world—New York, Portland, Lisbon, Singapore, Medellín and Rio de Janeiro and soon London, as well, to name a few—are already successfully operating cable car transportation systems.

Powered by electricity, an aerial tramway ranks among the technologies to which these metropolises are resorting, as aerial trams have proven to be an advantageous urban transit solution.

http://www.stl.laval.qc.ca/


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They have these already in Medellin, Colombia! And they're super cool!

http://gondolaproject.com/medellin/

interesting, I am curious to know what would be the distance in between the stations and where they will be located.
Thanks for sharing fjordbjord

Il semble une bonne idee de evaluer aussi des alternatives aux metropolitaines.
Surtout vu les temps et les couts de la realisation...

Une avantage important des transports aeriens à cable telles les telecabines est qui est toujours possible de deplacer, modifier ou demonter la ligne.. il'ya aussi un marchè pour les remonteès usageè.

Seems a very good idea to evaluate alternative to the usual underground, that take a very lot of money and long time to build .

A big advantage of ropeways systems is the possibility (rather unique between infrastructures) of modify, relocate or dismount the line, its even possbile to resale the gondola or aerial tramway.

http://www.stl.laval.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Transport-par-cable-introduction-et-etude.pdf

A comprehensive and cogent study.
Une étude exhaustive et convaincante.

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They have these already in Medellin, Colombia! And they're super cool!
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/8360/dscf2577.jpg

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/7976/dscf2579.jpg
http://1leoza.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pdHu3XIV0lbLB83ehBoIkwU9jWpdijk-dmMqr7O4-Qi3McCQw43Lky7ZrrQKBpY9KVYSmZ_cN1hw7OK7_2F-JJHr_KF1u4N35/100_0038.jpgI'm really astonished realising there being just a single cable to do the work, i.e., no back-up or secondary one.
What's the likelihood of a forthcoming upgrade?
^^ Medellin's :PFFT:

Plus we got des planificateurs who've no clue as to how --technologically-speaking :sly:-- to be drawing on English, «tramway» aerien :ohno:

What a joke, making it appear as though les Lavallois be undeserving of trans-municipal metro service ...

I wasn't finished :sly:

Why do I suspect that this mode of public transport in the province's most populated suburb
would be subjected to vandalism, CCTV or not :?
I said for MASS TRANSIT!!!
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A Gondola lift built by the Leitner-Poma group now spans the Complexo do Alemão allowing residents a faster commute. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexo_do_Alem%C3%A3o)
Funny how your --uhm-- touristy line nary shows a commuter ... bunch of gawking rubbernecks :ohno: without any
supplementary safety cable at that! might just as well wonder what the IOC might have to say about that ;)
The first time I encountered a trailing circle line was Vancouver's panhandle, then the Montreal area's
proposal for a bogey booger, yet the teacup's the best :)
http://w5.montreal.com/mtlweblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/metro_xtensions.jpg
^^ clickable... (http://w5.montreal.com/mtlweblog/?p=13526)
If Laval must have its télésphférique, then it ought to be the non-bus transport linking "Carrefour Laval" with station
Saint-Martin. Anyhow, over the years, it's been only les Lavallois grumbling about the advent of any metro bringing in
drug dealing :ohno: yet I can assure anybody that a téléférique in a suburban setting bringing about far more trouble
than anybody could anticipate :yes:

yet I can assure anybody that a téléférique in a suburban setting bringing about far more trouble
than anybody could anticipate :yes:

Why ?

Are differences respect other public transport systems?

The density's so minimal, barely anybody around to be witnessing the goings-on ;)

The density's so minimal, barely anybody around to be witnessing the goings-on ;)

And that would be a problem? , if density is so low an underground metro or even streetcar/tramway should be out of question.

The problem is more the case of Earth's second largest jurisdiction without any transport policy, spearing hung baskets being blasted about by arctic currents'd as altogether serving enough an incentive to induce folks to leave their vehicles at home ... what kind of country is that you dream about :?

I took a peak at a satellite shot of Carrefour Laval a few weeks ago, and thought that its odd dozen enourmous parking lots adjacent to one another would serve as Laval's ideal site for this transport :dunno:

The problem is more the case of Earth's second largest jurisdiction without any transport policy, spearing hung baskets being blasted about by arctic currents'd as altogether serving enough an incentive to induce folks to leave their vehicles at home ... what kind of country is that you dream about :?

Technology shown in the video, the 3S has demonstrated to stand winds up to 120 kph.
this wind speed already cause problems in road traffic, Maybe Laval is looking into low-cost mass transport alternatives to a metro that wont be sustainable due to low density.

Call their chosen mode what you will, kitsch, kétane ... frankly, the jurisdiction's seriousness is too mild for comfort, plus I bet puniness to the very scale of windiness you allude to will come to be in the not-all-that-far-off future.

I put this up on the Toronto site.............interesting alternative and a hell of a lot more pedestrian friendly, safe, and pleasant then this stupid Gondola idea.
Check it out, it has a great video. www.skytrolley.com

Too Flash Gordon ... the narrator keeps referring to the patenters' rail-based stock as "busses", it's far from the first time I've come across the aversion to the term 'trains', as though it were some dirty word :sly: ... the patenters' product and establishment placements are undoubtedly questionable (what's wrong instead with depicting a neighbourhood dep?) ... they're demonstrating their being so far behind the times, what with Sao Paulo recently instigating a worldwide trend to rid the urban landscape of billboard advertisments ... plus London finds its own heavy duty lifts to its tube stations themselves too cumbersome ... the video's more about brainwashing than drumming up any viable, worthwhile solution :ohno:

The idea of suspended monorail like this would be very affordable and has an incredible safety record........the Wuppertal line in Germany has run non-stop since 1901 with no accidents due to the technology. One one death in 111 years and that was more than 40 years ago and was due to a company crane falling on the track.
Also, there is no rule that says the stations have to be built like that, they could be standard stations.

If anything'd been ingenious about the producers' patent; then it could've been inherently devising into their proposed, suspended rail the ability to convert its accommadative traction from pneumatic to magnetic levitation; which I reckon just might be promising; although then why bother suspending the stock; right :dunno:

Do those patentors really think suspending heavy-duty lifts above sidewalks would actually be tolerated? :weird:

http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad236/trainrover/lift1.jpg
^^ clickable...

http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad236/trainrover/lift2.jpg
^^ clickable... (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=87678457#post87678457)
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