Lagos is latest city to plan cable car.

Lagos in Nigeria has become the latest city to
propose a cable car as a mode of mass urban
transport in a scheme to be completed by 2015.
Ropeways Transport Limited has signed a
franchise agreement with the (LAMATA) Lagos
Metropolitan Area Transport Authority and the
Lagos State government, which will cover the
project for 30 years.
Construction on the first phase of the cable car system
will begin in November when towers, stations and the
connecting cables will start to be put in place.
Once completed, passengers will be able to travel from
Ijora to Iddo; Iddo to Adeniji; Apapa to Oluwole; Oluwole
to Adeniji; Adeniji to Obalende; Obalende to Falomo; and
Falomo to Victoria Island.
Captain Dago Olumide, Chief Executive Officer of
Ropeways Transport Limited, said that the cable car
network would help to solve the transport issues that
are currently hampering Lagos and preventing its
economic expansion.
He went on to say: "By complementing existing
transport modes, the Lagos cable car transit system will
play its part in reducing the traffic congestion in the
city."
Lagos is expected to have 25 million inhabitants by the
year 2015, meaning that the current 12 million daily
passenger movements will increase by six per cent each
year, putting added pressure on the existing transport
infrastructure.
It can take those travelling to work by car within the
city as long as three hours to complete the journey and
200,000 new vehicles are registered in Lagos State
every year, Captain Olumide pointed out.
"Presently, there is need to ameliorate the existing
congestion on the three bridges connecting Lagos
Mainland to Lagos Island and to provide a link between
Apapa and the Central Business District on Lagos Island,
and also to link Victoria Island with the Central
Business District of Lagos Island. These are what we
hope to achieve with the launch of the cable transit
system," he added.
Cable cars are increasingly being used as an everyday
form of transport across the world, due to the fact that
they are green and efficient, with one currently under
construction in Brest in Brittany.