NIMBYs
More likely NOMBYs - Not Over My Back Yard.
I hadn't realised that Toulouse was getting one of these things. However, it opened today (less late than some things). In this case they have managed to find a route that does not really fly over any housing, or anything else much. It's provided by the usual suspects (Poma). This
from Teller Report:
Toulouse is taking to the skies by putting an urban cable car into service on Saturday, the longest in the country, intended to complete, in a low-carbon way, the public transport network of the fourth city...
After Brest and Saint-Denis, in Reunion, Téléo is the third cable car in France.
"In Toulouse we have a star-shaped network and we needed a cross-connection in the south of the agglomeration, to go from one peripheral area to another, without going through the center", specifies Nicolas Misiak, the president of Tisséo Voyageurs, the agglomeration's public transport authority.
Departing from the Université-Paul-Sabatier metro station, the blue-grey cabins rise towards the CHU Rangueil, at the top of a hill, before descending on the other side, above cliffs and the Garonne, towards the Oncopole, a hospital and research centre.
The spacious cabins can carry 34 passengers, including 20 seated and wheelchairs, up to 75 meters above the ground.
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Now fashionable, projects have been launched in other French cities such as Ajaccio, Grenoble and Créteil.
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