Genting Skyway
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Genting Skyway is a gondola lift to the Genting Highlands in Malaysia . It serves as a feeder to the Genting Highland Resort on the hilltop with its six hotels and various other facilities and, like the entire resort , is operated by Resorts World Genting .
Its valley station, about an hour's drive from Kuala Lumpur , is located a little above the E 8 - Kuala Lumpur - Karak Expressway at an altitude of around 870 m on the western slope of the Genting Highlands and consists of a five-story building with a ten-story parking garage. At the valley station, you can check into the hotels and hand in your luggage. The gondola lift has an inclined length of 3.38 km. The gondolas with 8 seats reach the mountain station in the Highlands Hotel on the top of the hill at 1760 m in about 11 minutes . The gondola is usually operated daily from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., and longer on national holidays.
The cable car was officially opened on February 21, 1997 by Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad , the then Prime Minister of Malaysia.
The cable car system was planned and delivered by Leitner , the construction and engineering systems were planned and monitored by Arup .
From a technical point of view, it is a detachable monocable gondola with a 54 mm thick hauling rope that runs over 22 cable car supports. The facility has 100 cabins that travel at a maximum speed of 6 m / s (21.6 km / h). The drive is located in the mountain station, the tensioning device for the hauling rope in the valley station. Although the stations give the impression that they are part of the large buildings, they are structurally independent of them so that the dynamic forces or loads of the cable car are not transferred to the buildings. The pillars were each set up with four caissons, each 1.2 m in diameter, on the natural rock, which was on average 40 m deep. Immediately in front of the mountain station is a 45 m high support with a fanned out head and a long roller set to divert the rope from the horizontal into the valley. The photo shows only the upper part of the support.
The cable car will be closed for maintenance work for one day per month and five days per quarter, which will still be monitored by Leitner (as of 2007). On these days, guests can use the older Awana Skyway on the southern slope of the hilltop .
The Genting Skyway was with her opening probably the longest and fastest cable car in Southeast Asia, but it is since the opening of the built also by Leitner latest Ngong Ping 360 in Hong Kong anymore.
See also
Web links
- Genting Skyway on the Resorts World Genting website
- Leitner News April 2007
- Structural description of the Genting Skyway
Coordinates: 3 ° 24 ′ 29.9 " N , 101 ° 45 ′ 53" E