Environmentalists have also prevented several proposals for building a cable car that would run up to the peak.
Legal claims are expected, as they always are after a cable car accident.
He has already spent a fortune building a planetarium, a cable car and a viewing tower, which looks out over nothing in particular.
There was tragedy in Italy in February as a US military jet cut the wire of a cable car in the Dolomites, killing 20 skiers.
After the latest serious accident when seven people were injured after a cable car slammed to an unexpected stop after hitting a small bolt in the track The Associated Press obtained through a public records request a listing of cable car-related legal settlements over the last three years.
While in the army, he directed the dramatic rescue of passengers stranded in a disabled cable car.
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There is quite an argument over a proposal to build a cable-car connecting the city and the island.
Take a dramatic cable car ride up Mount Ulriken to find the sky:skraper restaurant, perched 643 metres above sea level.
The next step is to hop on a TeleferiQo cable car and ride up the slopes of Mt Pichincha, the active volcano that overlooks Quito.
His Heidiland includes a cable-car ride up a Heidi alp where tourists eat a Heidi meal before feeding the Heidi goats and meeting Heidi's grandfather.
For a less ambiguous view of the city, hop in a taxi to Namsan cable car station.
In London, a new air tram cable car spanning the Thames River opened this week, connecting visitors with Olympic venues and giving them spectacular views of the city.
Perched at the first midstation on the Punta Helbronner cable car at a heady height of 2, 173 metres, Rifugio Pavillon is a traditional mountain refuge with a deckchairlined terrace.
San Francisco remains the only place on the planet with a true, manually operated cable-car system serving the public.
Two months ago, five passengers and two workers were injured after the bolt caused their cable car to slam to a sudden stop, tossing them violently inside the vehicle.
Also, go to the Vinpearl Amusement Park in Nha Trang (get a ride in the longest over-water cable car).
Numerous trails climb the 1, 000m-high plateau but the most popular is Platteklip Gorge, a steep, 3km walk that begins near the lower cable-car station.
Designs for the cable car will be completed in April 2010 after which a contractor will be sought to carry out its construction.
We demoed them all on an iPhone 5 using a USB to Lightning cable plugged in below the armrest, providing data to the car and power to the phone.
Telling Google engineers that their Google projects destroy cable TV or book publishing by making them obsolete should be much easier, certainly easier than building a driverless car.
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The danger was compounded by an overhead power cable, which broke loose and fell on the roof of the rear car, causing further arcing and a large amount of smoke inside the train.
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