The urban cable car is often presented as a clever and inexpensive way of overcoming obstacles and/or climbing slopes.
When people talk about urban transport in France, they usually mean buses, tramways or metros, but more rarely cable cars. In recent years, however, we’ve been hearing more and more about urban cable transport.
Urban gondola lift in Saint Denis, Réunion | photo STRMTG
In France:
France’s first urban cable car went into service in Brest in 2015. It provides easy access across the Penfeld River.
The Toulouse urban cable car went into service in May 2022. It adapts to the topography (crossing the Pech-David hill, the Garonne river and a Natura 2000 nature reserve) and can fly over a pyrotechnic waste area (overflight at more than 50 meters). See the article : Toulouse urban aerial tramway gets underway (May 2022)
The STRMTG regularly addresses the subject of urban ropeways in its publications:
See the French-language articles "1ere télécabine urbaine de France sur l’île de la Réunion" (page 27) and "Télécabine de Namur" (page 55) in the STRMTG’s 2021 activity report:
This article contains information about RESCOR - European Network of Services responsible for the oversight and regulation of the safety of urban (...)
