Paris will spend $145 million to build a cable car system. If you live in Paris, you already have a lot of the best things to do in the world. The French capital might soon get its first city cable car.
Proposed plans for a new 4.5-mile-long aerial tramway that would connect many suburbs in the southeast to the Paris Metro are moving quickly. Construction is expected to start this year.
The “Cable 1” project is set to open in 2025. It will travel from the Paris suburb of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges to the Pointe du Lac station in Creteil in the Île-de-France area in just 17 minutes, which is less than half the time it would take to take a bus.
Drawings for the cable car line have just been released, giving a more in-depth look at the project, which just recently passed pre-construction feasibility tests.
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Cable 1 (C1) is estimated to cost €132 million (about $145 million). It is expected to serve around 11,000 people a day, with just 30 seconds between cabins at peak times. Every cabin could hold up to 10 people.
Cable 1 could be the first cable car system in Paris if it is approved. French cities like Brest and Grenoble already have similar programmes. However, a number of different planned aerial tramways are in different stages of development.
Cable 1 was first proposed in 2008. It was thought to be necessary because of the hilly terrain of Creteil, which also has a high-speed train line and a motorway, making other overground travel options less practical.
The Cable 1 project will go from the suburb of Paris, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, to the Pointe du Lac station in Creteil, which is in the Île-de-France area.
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With the goal of building the system, 33 white pylons, designed to blend in with the landscape, can be put up next to the suburbs.
Public transportation in Ile-de-France, the Ile-de-France areas, and the Division of Val-de-Marne decided in 2016 to add a new, cutting-edge tool for public transportation options that gave Île-de-France residents on their community the first city cable car transport line in the area.
Extremely easy to get to.
If everything goes as planned, the Bois Matar station in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges could be one of the five stops on the road. This is a picture of the station.
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“The great idea of the group led by Doppelmayr France will let more than 11,000 people a day save a lot of time, have a lot of comfort, and maybe even dream a little bit in the mountains.”
Cable 1 will serve five stops in total, including Temps Durables and Emile Combes in Limeil-Brévannes, Emile Zola in Valenton, and Bois Matar in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. It will end at Pointe du Lac in Créteil, which is just a short walk from metro line 8.
The 4.5-kilometer line could be able to serve about 1,600 people an hour.
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Each station can only be one storey high to make sure the system is “100% accessible” for passengers.
Paris isn’t the only city in Europe that has a cable car system. A 1.5-kilometer-long cable car that can travel across the IJ river was approved by the city of Amsterdam last year. It will be able to connect Amsterdam-West and Amsterdam-Noord when it is ready in 2025.
In London, a cable car built across the Thames river hasn’t had many passengers since it opened in 2012. It only kept the city’s transportation funds from being drained because of a profitable sponsorship deal that’s soon to end.
Credit for the best picture goes to Île-de-France Mobilités.
