Can a cable car be a legit form of urban transit?
I took a ride on Europe's newest, and longest, aerial tramway, the C1 in #Paris, to find out.
(In the video: we're overflying both a national highway and a high-speed rail line, and heading for a métro station.)
More in this week's HIGH SPEED dispatch:
https://www.highspeed.blog/up-where-the-air-is-clear/
Taras Grescoe 🚇
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