Blida - Chréa cable car
The cable car Blida - Chréa connects the north of Algeria meters to just 260 meters above sea level located village of Blida with the m to nearly 1,500 height in Tellatlas located Chréa , a popular ski and summer resort. The only alternative is the very winding, 18 km long RN 37 road.
The first cable car was a gondola lift built by Poma in 1984 , but it was closed in 1993 due to the Algerian civil war and then destroyed.
After more than 15 years, a new gondola lift was opened on January 18, 2009, which was also built by Poma, with the Entreprise du métro d'Alger (EMA) acting as the builder and client. It is operated by ETUB - Entreprise des transports urbains de Blida, the urban transport company.
The valley station is on the outskirts of Blida in the immediate vicinity of the football stadium. From there the cable car goes to the Beni Ali middle station at a height of more than 900 m, which is designed as an angular station. The mountain station is a little below the village on a ski slope. The trip offers a wide view over Blida and the Mitidja valley, with good visibility as far as the Mediterranean. There is a chair lift near the mountain station.
The cable car is 7.15 km long, making it one of the longest monocable gondolas in the world. She has 138 cabins with 6 seats each. While the old train had yellow cabins, the new cabins are blue and have a yellow roof. The cabins travel at a speed of 5 m / s (18 km / h) over 68 cable car supports . This enables the railway to transport 900 people per hour.
Web links
- Article from Le Quotidien d'Oran on DjaZairess, accessed January 9, 2011
- Images of Algerian cable cars , accessed on January 9, 2011
Coordinates: 36 ° 29 ′ 9.7 " N , 2 ° 50 ′ 56.6" E