darwink
Senior Member
Should be just as feasible as this thing built with no business case iirc. Issue I guess is the gondola will require full time attendants.
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Freedm
Active Member
And the gondola would be a private venture I believe, not city run.
Freedm
Active Member
Well, if the gondola doesn't go I'd love to see a zip line from the top of the convention centre down to the Muttart. Somebody step up! It can't be that hard.
archited
Senior Member
Until it goes bankrupt, and then who takes the controls?
Kaizen
Senior Member
^ SKYRISE Edmonton Consortium of course ! We can cross that bridge (gondola) when we get there. Isn't there a feasibility study and further discussion happening still this year regarding a business case? Personally I hope it happens and is successful, eventually having multiple lines winding through the river valley to locations that are poorly serviced via ETS.
ronron
Active Member
If they can pull off a 10-15 minute gondola ride to Hawrelak Park from downtown, I might never move ?
Urban gondola station planned for Rossdale power plant
Prairie Sky Gondola Inc. revealed Wednesday that the Rossdale power plant is part of the company's planned route for its urban gondola.
edmonton.ctvnews.ca
ronron
Active Member
I dig it! Looking forward to the conceptual jasper ave connection; I think it's positioned near the ed conference center.
KyleBlanchett
Active Member
Love it! Imagine all of the Cool restaurants and shops that could set up in the old power plant
I would take it to work assuming service frequency is high.
Kaizen
Senior Member
Gondola Gods, gondola Gods, gondola Gods.
There, now its gonna happen...
There, now its gonna happen...
ronron
Active Member
I hope they consider the space on the south end of the Telus Building for the downtown station (especially if the one way road there gets permanently closed, or so I've read somewhere). Major bus terminal, and central LRT pedway would be at it's doorstep. I imagine non-downtown residents would be transferring from either as they head to Rossdale or Whyte.
Privately-funded river valley gondola is viable, company says in Rossdale Power Plant station reveal
The group behind a proposed three-kilometre gondola connecting to the city’s river valley is confident the sky-high project is achievable, unveiling a plan to…
edmontonjournal.com
Kaizen
Senior Member
I'm curious to find out where the other 2 stations they (added to the original 3) are located?
A Proposed Gondola Would Connect West Rossdale and Whyte Avenue to Downtown | Edify.
The gondola isn’t a pie-in-the-sky idea.
www.avenueedmonton.com