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• Long Beach report says: City Hall (is) seeking grants from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Federal Transit Agency to fund an “alternative transportation analysis” that would identify ways to connect some southshore locations linking downtown/southshore sites using traditional bus and waterway routes as well as “non-traditional approaches” including “ground-based cable drawn trams and aerial gondola ropeway systems.” Click here to read more.
• Oakland North is reporting that the long-delayed and controversial Oakland Airport Connector may soon be under construction. Click here to read more.
• BBC News reports that “A planning application for a £25m cable car across the Thames will be submitted in a few weeks.” Click here to read more.
• Again from the BBC: Aleem Maqbool reports on a very basic cable system being used in Pakistan as a means to connect isolated villagers devastated after last month’s flooding. Click here to watch the report.
• The Otago daily times reports on a public meeting held by the Dunedin Cable Car Trust to gauge public interest in their proposal to bring cable back to Dunedin, New Zealand. Click here to read more.
• Last week San Francisco shut-down the California Street line of its famed cable car system to begin a $24 million rehabilitation and improvement program. It’s the first such rehab since the early 80’s. To learn more, check out the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency’s Press Release or read up about it on SFGate’s report from March of this year.