Mexico City has a major problem: traffic. In the future, the new urban ropeway system from Austrian ropeway manufacturer DOPPELMAYR/GARAVENTA will combat this. Opening of the third transport level is scheduled for the start of 2021, after a construction period of only a year and a half.

Second place for Mexico City! – It is questionable whether the city would want to celebrate the fact, as the top position is for daily traffic congestion. According to Salzburg24, only Bangkok has longer congestion times. On average, a total of 219 hours (just over 9 days) are spent bumper- to-bumper in the Mexican capital.

The problem here is actually easy to explain: Mexico City is growing too quickly. More and more people are moving to the city, in search of work or a better life. This has resulted in the city merging with increasingly large parts of the surrounding area. Almost 21.6 million people therefore already live in Mexico’s largest city, at an average altitude of 2,310 metres above sea level.

The problems that arise from this relate not only to the daily waiting times in traffic but also to the resulting air quality; on many days in the year, the city disappears under a dome of smog. Now, a number of projects are aiming to help improve quality of life for the city.

One of these projects is the planned urban ropeway from DOPPELMAYR/GARAVENTA. The installation of nine kilometres of ropeway route by the start of 2021 should relieve traffic in the north of the city and thus make it easier for residents to breathe.

For DOPPELMAYR/GARAVENTA, this order is a new milestone for ropeways as a transport solution in the city. As the general contractor, the ropeway specialist will be responsible for turnkey implementation of the project and make an important contribution to sustainable and environmentally friendly mobility in Mexico City.

The public transport is used by almost 800 million passengers per year; on peak days, up to 5.5 million people travel by bus, underground etc. – and by ropeway from the start of 2021. tm