Metrocable (Caracas)

[1] This Metrocable system is part of the growing number of gondola lifts that are now being used for urban transportation purposes (others include the Metrocable (Medellin), Mi Teleférico (La Paz), Portland Aerial Tram, Emirates Air Line and Roosevelt Island Tramway).

In 2006, the interdisciplinary design firm Urban-Think Tank (Hubert Klumpner and Alfredo Brillembourg), working with local community leaders and the state government, came up with the idea to build a network of cable cars into the poorest areas of the capital, known as Barrio San Agustín.

The Ministry of Infrastructure, Austrian aerial lift manufacturer Doppelmayr, and the Brazilian company Odebrecht were all responsible for the construction of the system.

In December 2009, Caracas Metro Cable entered into the testing phase, and in January 2010, the first users of the system were carried: several community leaders from Hornos de Cal to Parque Central.

This gondola lift system is fully integrated with the local Metro and has a capacity of 3,000 pphpd (persons per hour per direction).