London’s Cloud Cable Car, which cost around £60,000,000 to build, only carries an average of four passengers an hour during the early morning commute.
Demand for the gondola service, known as the Dangleway or the IFS Cloud Cable Car, reached an average of four journeys in each direction between 7am and 8am from August 2023 to August 2024.
Transport For London is now looking to cut the cable car’s morning opening times by up to 2 hours from December 1, despite the fact it still attracts tens of thousands of people each week.
Journeys begin at 7am from Monday to Friday, but in the first hour of service, there is an average of just one occupied journey every fifteen minutes — all while a cable car runs every 30 seconds.
This means it reaches only 0.8% of its capacity, as the cable cars can move up to 5,000 people per hour.
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