{"id":8466,"date":"2019-07-03T04:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T04:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=8466"},"modified":"2023-07-12T04:30:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:30:06","slug":"gondola-ride-to-salesforce-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/gondola-ride-to-salesforce-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Gondola ride to Salesforce Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Salesforce Park Gondola\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w4UA3nfFvuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The term &#8220;gondola&#8221; can mean <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gondola_(disambiguation)\">many different things.<\/a> The first that comes to my mind are the boats in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/venice\/\">Venice<\/a>, but here I&#8217;m talking about a different form of transportation: a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gondola_lift\">gondola lift.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This gondola in particular takes visitors up from ground level to Salesforce Park on the top of the freshly re-opened Salesforce Transit Center. See it in action for yourself in my video above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far I&#8217;ve tried the gondola twice now to get up to the park since it re-opened on Monday. I was particularly interested in riding it since it wasn&#8217;t operational <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/salesforce-transit-center-opening-day\/\">the first time Salesforce Transit Center opened.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it&#8217;s interesting to try it out, it&#8217;s pretty silly. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can only go up in the gondola: passengers are not allowed to ride back down in it. I assume this is due to space concerns at the top and bottom.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unlike the elevators and escalators inside the building you can take to the park, the gondola takes at least three people to operate: one person at the bottom for crowd control, an on board operator, and a security guard at the top.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It reminded me of the time I took an inclinator (a diagonal elevator) when I was visiting Stockholm, which is to say it&#8217;s not that different from an elevator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both times I went on it there was a short line. I imagine it&#8217;ll be busier on the weekends, and should draw more of a crowd once buses are heading to Salesforce Transit Center again. It doesn&#8217;t seem like it would be worth waiting in a long line for since it&#8217;s hardly the only way up to the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand it&#8217;s a free attraction to a free park. 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