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- The Swiss-Italian Matterhorn Alpine Crossing opened Saturday, July 1st, becoming the highest cable car in the world. The new portion connects Matterhorn Glacier Paradise in Zermatt, Switzerland, to the station Testa Grigia in Cervinia, Italy, and hovers 1 mile over the Theodul Glacier. The tricable detachable gondola (3S) takes the passengers on a 4-minute ride from end to end. The cable car has a capacity of 1300 passenger per hour and a total of 10 cabins. The cabins were designed by the design studio Pininfarina and have glass bottoms to allow riders to see the glacier below. This project has a total cost of CHF 140 million ($156 million USD) so far and is to be the final installment in the line over the alps. See a related Weekly Roundup here.
- Skyline Queenstown, a gondola in New Zealand, renovated and reopened. The system has seen major redesigns to the existing system, including the addition of 10 new towers, which require airlifts for construction. The new line is a D-Line detachable gondola with 35 10-passenger cabins. The cable car can operate at up to 5 meters per second and can transport up to 3000 passengers per hour per direction (pphpd). It has a total inclined length of 760m (2493ft) and a vertical rise of 438m (1437m). See a related Weekly Roundup here.
- Wild Blue Gondola’s new leg at Steamboat is currently under construction in Steamboat’s expansions. The new leg construction for Wild Blue will end at Sunshine Peak, which will make it the longest and fastest 10-person gondola in North America at 3.16 miles in length. The towers are being installed by Chinook helicopters, and the system is expected to open this upcoming winter. Steamboat is also building a new detachable quad called the Mahogany Ridge Express which will serve a previously out of bounds area known as Pioneer Ridge. See a related Weekly Roundup here.
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