Cable Car Offers Small Hope for Mongolia's Gridlocked Capital

Cable car offers small hope for Mongolia's gridlocked capital

Developers now hope that a 4.2-kilometre (2.6-mile) cross-river cable car might help on the margins, cutting a three-hour journey to just minutes. Weary residents, however, have long wished for a more ambitious response to the city's heavy traffic and pollution problems. "I think (the cable car) might improve things a bit," 68-year-old Narantsetseg Aleksandr told AFP in one of Ulaanbaatar's sprawling northern suburbs. "For families living up on …

Cable car offers small hope for Mongolia’s gridlocked capital

Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar has long been plagued by notorious traffic jams and suffocating winter smog -- the result of breakneck urban growth and infrastructure that has struggled to keep up.Developers now hope that a 4.2-kilometre (2.6-mile) cross-river cable car might help on the margins, cutting...