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- Cannon Mountain, a part of the Franconia Notch State Park in New Hampshire, receives an $18 million budget to upgrade its aerial tramway. While they had originally hoped for $25 million, stakeholders still believe that the $18 million will be able to cover all the needed changes by reusing some of the existing parts. Currently, they are planning to change out the cabins and cabin compatibility machinery for the aerial tram, but not the cables and overall structural components. While some advocated for the system to be replaced by a cheaper gondola, the history of the tramway won out; it is aimed to reopen 2025.
- A new cable car has been proposed for the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland as part of a £44 million ($56 million USD) new building project. The gondola is expected to ferry 350 thousand people a year from Donard Park up to the newly built visitor center at Thomas Quarry. The cable car is expected to be 1 km long and have a vertical distance of 230m. The project has received some skepticism about the environmental and visual impacts while others consider the project’s tourism generation and economic value. It is hoped that planning permission will be obtained by 2026 and construction finished by 2029.
- A new cable car is coming to Georgetown, Malaysia. The project has a proposed starting investment of RM245 million ($52.4 million USD) by Hartasuma, a rail services company and future owner, and is to be built by Doppelmayr. It is expected to have a total of 43 cabins, 15 towers, and a capacity of 1000 passengers per hour. It will have a max speed of 6 meters per second and take 10 minutes to journey from the bottom station to the top. Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow emphasized that the project would also have low noise pollution and run off of electrical power to answer environmentalist concerns.
- Big Sky’s new tram cars have been unveiled in Montana. The multi-year renovations on the tram have swapped the old 15-person cabins for much larger 75-person ones. As a part of the project, the top terminal is also being upgraded to include a panoramic glass viewing platform. Capacity is not yet given, however the mountain plans to change daily capacity day by day according to “weather, snow quality and terrain accessibility.”
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