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Teleférico do Complexo do Alemao. Getting people to experience systems like the Medellin Metrocable will be one of the cable industry's big challenges in the coming years. Image by gab. There’s no nice way to say this, but here goes: Had the Metrocables of Medellin and Venezuela been built in a place like Denver, Copenhagen or Zurich, this conversation about cable transit would be entirely different than it is now.

Cities would be building these things faster than the industry could keep up. We wouldn’t even need this site, to be completely honest. One of the first things a planner, policy-maker or politician has to do before implementing any radical new idea is to witness it first hand. That first-person encounter with a new idea, technology or innovation can change people’s perception in an instant. In other words, for the right people to get cable transit they need to experience cable transit. But that’s very, very difficult with world affairs such as they are: But most likely they won’t.

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