US EditionFirst Urban Cable Car Unveiled Outside Paris
The €138 million C1 line uses 105 gondolas to reduce travel time from 40 to 18 minutes, linking isolated suburbs to Paris metro line 8 efficiently.
- On Dec 13, the C1 urban cable car was unveiled in Limeil-Brévannes with Valerie Pecresse, head of the Ile-de-France region, and the mayors of the towns served.
- Faced with unaffordable metro costs, regional leaders backed the cheaper cable car option, as officials said the €138-million project was less expensive than a subway and an underground metro could not have been financed, Grégoire de Lasteyrie explained.
- C1 links Créteil and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges via Limeil-Brévannes and Valenton, using 105 gondolas seating ten each and carrying some 11,000 passengers per day.
- Journey takes 18 minutes including stops, cutting typical road travel times substantially versus around 40 minutes by bus or car, linking commuters in isolated neighbourhoods to Paris metro line 8.
- Historically rooted in Grenoble's 1934 system, urban cable cars now appear in multiple French cities as France's seventh urban cable car joins Brest, Saint-Denis de La Réunion and Toulouse, with the `bubbles` as a local symbol.
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The launch of the Val-de-Marne urban cable car on Saturday brings to seven the number of such infrastructures in France. Historically used to cross rugged terrains in the mountains,
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First urban cable car unveiled outside Paris
Gondolas floated above a cityscape in the southeastern suburbs of Paris Saturday as the first urban cable car in the French capital's region was unveiled.
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zdfheute.deIt is the first city-swing railway in Paris and in the future connects the suburbs in the south-east of the French capital with the metro. According to the operators, the longest cable car in Europe has been opened in Paris.
The 4.5 km long cable car is intended to help ease the traffic situation in the Île-de-France area.
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