In January, Angelov’s provocative idea for a second circulation lane, which allowed bicycles to travel across steel wires, sparked quite a debate. Angelov has branched off this initial idea to form a new concept for urban transportation. Kolelinio takes the wire system found in the Kolelinia experiment to a new level by creating a seemingly part ski-lift part roller coaster line that will zip people around the city. The proposal offers a fresh outlook on weightless transportation that can be implemented now, instead of waiting for the depletion of petroleum before finding a greener way.
A great video and more about the project after the break.
The project divides the city into a car zone and a car-free zone, with interchange points surrounding the car-free zone for users to switch to their Kolelinio. A network of wire lines not only transports people to major drop off zones, but also allows users to be dropped off at interstitial spaces like certain intersections that would be elevated on platforms.
The line changes heights based on the ground condition. For instance, in a dense traffic zone, the line is elevated quite high off the ground, and it returns to ground level after bypassing the crowded intersections.
This radical idea illustrates Angelov’s recurring fascination with transportation and his intent to challenge the notion of a contemporary city. This step marks a new stage of development for the idea, and while there are details that still need to be worked out, one can’t help but wonder what it would feel like to zip around his city, getting a new perspective on the urban environment while quickly avoiding any vehicular congestion.
this is silly and irrelevant
what if there’s 500 people on the same wire stuck behind one person whose engine has stopped working?
How would this work in windy conditions or during a storm? It does not protect the passenger from bad weather.
i’m with dados. This, like that absurd cycling high wire, reads as people completely out of touch with developing infrastructure just throwing silly ideas out to see if they get published.
Good idea,but no in China.
I like the idea but ….Wait & see
How would a person mount themselves on one of these things? Are they accounting for people of all different sizes? What if one of those wires were to break above busy traffic? What happens when the weather is bad? Does a person have control over their acceleration? – can you make an emergency stop? If you did, how many people would get injured running into your battery pack?
It’s a nice theme park ride, though. It’s a shame it’s been already invented.
There’s always a few architects in the world who are thinking about cable cars, flying foxes, or monorails and their variants at any point in time, aren’t there? And that’s probably a good thing. My big concern would be the size of the motor required to create sufficient torque to actually move you along a steel cable – AFAIK (and I’m not mechanical engineer so I could well be wrong) its not viable by a long chalk with current technology. As people know, the way that cable cars in the Alps, the unit is fixed to the cable rigidly and the cable is then always moving, powered by massive plant and using plenty of diesel.
So unless there’s a major change to the way you power these things and the weight / size of the motor, then this isn’t going to be viable as a lightweight personal solution. Obviously things get better and smaller and fuel cells could happen one day, but clearly that benefits the car and the reason people like cars because you can lug a lot of stuff in them.
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“Genius”..
I like this complex, it could be used in aeroport terminals or exhibition spaces…
i agree that an exhibition space would become a lot more interesting with this thing going round it. Look at the swiss pavilion at the shanghai expo. I just don’t think turning cities into theme parks is a positive move. The next step is those horrible people-tubes in futurama.
The guy takes the idea out of the box and u want to put it back in.. great thinking, guys.
This idea is not very developed (in order not use the word “stupid”):
1. What about safety? (not to mention people with fear of heights)
2. What about climate conditions?
3. Esthetic Issue: everybody is trying to get rid of all sorts of cables on the poles in the city, and now you what to put the back up?
4. How about the structure that suports the cables? It should be pretty strong and heavy. Do we really what heavy poles in the city center?
These are ideas off the top of my head, i’m sure there are more cons for these concept. It’s easier to just walk (or cycle) and healthier!!!
What is next? Jet packs for everybody? Maybe genetic modifications giving everybody wings to fly around the city?
@Alexsleepy
These problems are really secondary.. this project is about something more than such small practicalities that can be overcome in a few months of work.. There can be a solution for weather protection, safety (safety is the easiest one to overcome..), Aesthetic issues??? What if you could integrate all the cables that you need in a city into that system? Then you wouldn’t have cables at all – u’d have just one architectural element running through the city..
This is not a substitution for walking or cycling.. as you can see in the video – there are people walking and cycling on the side.. This is a substitution for a car.. Did you not understand that? Maybe there’s many more things that you don’t understand?
@ St Barth
Jet Packs – yeah! Bring em, I’ll buy one if it can fly more than 15 seconds as they do at the moment..
Genetic Modifications – if it’s safe.. why not? Maybe not wings in that case but something more sophisticated to fly around..
Or would you rather go back to the caves?
“Maybe not wings in that case but something more sophisticated to fly around”
What could be more sophisticated than wings?
Have you not seen birds? lol
Well.. if we are talking about genetic modifications – I’m sure they can make me levitate by using my mind, right? That’s another level of sophistication ;)
I am sure there many things that i don’t understand.
The aspects listed by are people here and by me are not small practicalities, but have to be taken in consideration in order to make an innovative idea believable.
If you want to get cars out of the city center, there already fully functional systems. They are easier to implement: Parking lots at the city center borders, shuttle buses that bring you everywhere in the center (or tramways). The price of the bus is included in the parking ticket.
In the end one question: Why are you trying to overengineer walking?
I’m not trying to do anything :) I’m not the guy who works on this project..
I just see an advantage in such a transportation system..
Buses, shuttles, parking lots.. it doesn’t give you what this can give you – move more FREELY. Have the freedom to take an equipment and move as much as you want to..
The only equal solution existing is the bicycle..
What’s wrong with walking?
“What’s wrong with walking?”
Not modern enough, Frank.
Not fast enough ;)
walking exhausts; that’s just the answer for your question; that’s why someone invented horses and then cars; that’s why this alternative idea; personally, i dont’s see what moves those sits up on the cable, and how we control the speed moving down. The author should work the project out.
“someone *invented* horses”…? d’oh.
thank-you blackstone – you made me laugh in the midst of this baffling conversation.
Just silly. Safety aside, one your get off it are you going to walk around wearing that stuff? Park it as a bike?
Besides, the video looks like it have been cut short.
I don’t think giving everyone a ski-lift chair and dangling them on cables like shoes on power lines is a good solution to Public Transit. Granted cars aren’t either, but how about an old school solution like bikes?
It’s not a ski-lift.. it doesn’t have a seat.. it’s more of a special ops cables – the ones they use to get off helicopters..
This is obviously not for old people..
Its like copy paste of segway, just upside down.
The idea is not new anyway:
http://www.franquin.com/gaston/popup.php?img=/images/gaston/inventions/popup/11.jpg
When IS the idea NEW?
My biggest concern is having someone floating over my head.
Imagine if this person accidently drops something. Well, the doctors would profit…
ey come on everybody taking that proposal serious. just by the video you can see what the idea is all about. it’s for your mind to become a little visionary and inspirated.
good job, just as the one before.
can’t wait for the next one (hopefully that time without ropes) ;)
What bothers me is that if the author had put as much time into development of the idea as he did into presentation and animation he might have had some actual solutions to present.
The idea is beautiful in the sense that it is childishly naive. What makes an idea great though is a tiny amount of that and a huge amount of proper problem solving. This is the idealistic reason for people to go to university, to learn proper problem solving in order to be able to make reality out of their dreams and ideas.
What the author is showing us about himself is that he has learned some proper graphics and animation skills while not loosing the ability to come up with playful ideas. If his aim is to work on real problems and issues in today’s world he should be more concerned with showing us that he can understand and solve the problems his idea implies. “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration” – Thomas Alva Edison