LEITNER ROPEWAYS CONTINUES EXPANSION OF THE URBAN CABLE CAR SYSTEM
From 2021, two new urban cable cars from LEITNER ropeways will go into operation in Mexico City. In the district of Iztapalapa in the southeast of the metropolis, the system with a total length of almost eleven kilometres will offer commuters a better and above all safer connection to the metro stations. The city is investing a total of 130 million euros in the development of an efficient mobility infrastructure.
Multi-MODULAR CABLE CAR FROM POMA
From 2024, the first multi-modular urban cable car in Western Europe will connect three tram lines and four districts in the French city of Grenoble.
Float away on holiday
The new tri-cable car carries visitors on the shortest route to the popular holiday island of Cat Ba. Like the previous 3S line to the islands of Hon Thom and Phu Quoc, this installation has also made it into the Guinness Book of Records.
Cable car as a tourism spectacle
The Irish town of Enniscorthy demonstrates the fact that urban tourist cable cars are of interest not only for cities. A cable car is being discussed here as part of a 30-million euro development plan.
Urban cable car master plan
Professor Heiner Monheim from the raumkom Institute for Spatial Development and Communication is often consulted as an expert on urban cable car planning questions and he explains here which ideas in particular are being discussed in Germany at the moment and which planning steps still need to be taken.
Cable car for commuters and tourists
In the British city of Bristol, an urban cable car between Temple Meads railway station and the Clifton suspension bridge is under discussion. The cable car should also offer access to Ashton Gate football stadium and the areas of Wapping Wharf, the Harbourside and the Western Harbour.