Paris to construct $145M cable automotive system

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(CNN) — Paris is already home to some of the most popular attractions in the world, and the French capital could be about to get its very first urban cable car.

Proposed plans for a brand new 4.5 kilometer-long aerial tramway connecting various suburbs in the southeast to the Paris Metro are pressing ahead, with construction expected to begin this year.

Scheduled to open in 2025, the “Cable 1” project will travel from the Parisian suburb of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges to the Pointe du Lac station in Creteil in the Île-de-France region within just 17 minutes, less than half the time the journey would take on a bus.

Renderings for the cable car line, helmed by architecture studio Atelier Schall, have just been released, providing a closer look at the much-anticipated project, which recently cleared pre-construction feasibility studies.

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A rendering of Cable 1, a proposed new cable car system set to open in Paris by 2025.

Courtesy Île-de-France Mobilités

Cable 1 (C1) has…

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