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This African city thought cable cars could fix its traffic gridlock. It was wrong

5 August 2026 by CapeTownNewsReader

The idea was unique for sub-Saharan Africa: Use cable cars to lift thousands of commuters above the daily gridlock in one of Africa’s fast-growing cities. But the system ran for only a few weeks, and …Read More at Source

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