Europe’s longest cable car has been unveiled in Paris linking Metro Line 9 in Créteil to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, which is poorly served by public transport.
Known as the C1 cable car the 2.8 mile-long service, which cost (£120m) to build, is the first of its kind in the French capital, Hower, it is France's seventh urban cable car, including routes in Brest, Toulouse.
The cable car system was chosen for its minimal ground footprint, short construction period and ease of integration into existing infrastructure. At all stations, passengers can conveniently transfer to other modes of transport such as buses and the Metro. The cable car therefore provides an intermodal, fast, fully accessible and carbon-free connection across heavily trafficked roads and railway lines. The solution is far cheaper as a solution to handle relatively low traffic volumes in a congested area than the alternative of extending the Metro Line.
The system will carry users in cabins holding a maximum of 10 people. A trip along the total line will take 18 minutes compared with circa 35 minutes on the local bus service. The cable cars will arrive at the stations every 23 to 37 seconds and can accommodate wheelchairs, pushchairs and bicycles.
Passengers without a pass can expect to pay just £1.75.
A system such as the one in Paris, in concept, could be used to link a new Guildford East Station via New Inn Lane and Burpham Lane to the Weyside Development, or the Wisley Development to Effingham Station.
In a borough with limited land space, hemed in by exisiting development, poor roads might it be a solution?
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