A quick look at some of the things that happened this week in the world of cable cars, urban gondolas, and cable propelled transit: As part of a plan to rebuild Venezuela’s tourism sector, construction work is under way to reconstruct the Mérida Cable Car – once the longest and highest Aerial Tram in the...
As we’ve demonstrated before, cable cars, ropeways and gondolas are amongst the safest transit technologies in the world. But that doesn’t mean accidents don’t happen. A few days ago in Pakistan a cable car system snapped, sending 8 passengers plunging into the swollen Indus river below. No survivors were reported. A similar incident occurred last...