Medellín Metrocable Line H (Picacho)

Medellín, Colombia, South America

Completed · Transport · Urban Aerial Cable Car · Tropical · 2016

Line H extended Medellín's urban cable car network into the Picacho hillside neighbourhood, providing metro-integrated mass transit to a district inaccessible by conventional rail or bus. The Medellín cable system is globally recognised as the first sustained use of gondola technology as permanent urban mass transit integrated into a fare-paid metro network.

Innovation highlights

• first city in the world to operate cable cars as permanent metro-fare-integrated mass transit
• serves 30,000 passengers/day on steep terrain unreachable by rail or BRT
• station design doubles as community hub with library and public space
• model replicated in Caracas, La Paz, Bogotá, and Rio

Client / Developer

Metro de Medellín

Architect

Metro de Medellín / Doppelmayr

Engineer

Doppelmayr (cable systems); IDOM (civil)

Type

Urban Aerial Cable Car

#cable car #urban mobility #mass transit #hillside infrastructure #Medellín #social infrastructure

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