Why Paris Is Extending One Of Its Metro Lines... With A Cable Car

Paris (or more accurately, the southeastern suburb of Créteil) is about to open its first urban cable car line. But what made them build a cableway instead of going with a more conventional option like a bus, a tram, or extending the existing metro line? I went out to the end of Line 8 to see it for myself... INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/the.tim.traveller TWIT - https://twitter.com/TheTimTraveller FACE - https://www.facebook.com/TheTimTraveller/ MORE INFO Official website of the C1 (in French) - https://www.iledefrance-mobilites.fr/le-reseau/projets/cablec1 Local group protests against the line (Le Parisien, in French)- https://www.leparisien.fr/info-paris-ile-de-france-oise/a-creteil-les-sarrazins-sud-resistent-toujours-contre-le-trace-du-telepherique-06-10-2018-7912722.php IMAGE CREDITS Metro Maps by Chabe01 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chabe01 Barcelona Cable Car by Mummelgrummel - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barcelona_August_2014_-_Seilbahn_de_Montjuic_003.jpg London Cable Car by Chris Sampson - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Cable_Car_(110813-203_CPS_11711627636).jpg Medellín Cable Car by Camilo Sanchez - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metrocablemed.jpg