- The proposed development for the Mount Wellington Cable Car has been scaled down in an effort to get approval from Hobart City Council. The original design for the facilities on Kunanyi/Mt Wellington were reduced by over a third by trimming floor space and removing the restaurant and sanctum all together. Cabin capacity of the aerial tram was also reduced from 80 passengers to 40 passengers. See a related Weekly Roundup here.
- Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has issued an engineering, procurement, and construction tender for a cable car and luxury hotels. They will be key attractions for the Dubai Mountain Peak project in the Hatta Region. The cable car is designed to be 5.4 km, moving tourists to Um Al Nesoor, the United Arab Emirate’s highest natural summit. See a related Weekly Roundup here.
- Local officials are planning a two-mile cable car to connect the two Kansas Cities, one in the state of Missouri and one in the state of Kansas. The project appears to be spearheaded by a senior government official in Wyandotte County. A preliminary concept study to link the two downtowns, which are separated by the Missouri River, was produced a year ago and has been quietly soliciting comments. The cable car would connect somewhere between Case Park/Quality Hill on the Missouri side to an area near St. John’s Park/Strawberry Hill in Kansas.
- Georgia’s Soviet-era cable cars in Chiatura are finally getting an upgrade. Earlier this year four of Chiatura’s cable cars were renovated and modernized while some were preserved as national heritage monuments. Seventeen lines of cable cars were built in 1954 to move miners. Productivity increased with the cable cars which were also known as the “metal coffins.” In 1991, Chiatura became a ghost town and most cable cars were retired in 2016.
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