The first portion of the world’s highest gondola at 13,615 feet, from La Paz to El Alton, Bolivia. A commute that took Bolivians some now cuts travel time to about 10 minutes.
Scheduled for completion in September, the urban lift system from Austrian company聽聽will聽span six miles, transport 18,000 commuters per hour, operate 17 hours a day, and cost $234 million.