New Cable Car To Link Cervinia and Zermatt
New Cable Car To Link Cervinia and Zermatt
Published : 06-May-2011 05:58
A new cable car will open next year linking Cervinia to Plateau Rosa from where you can ski down on the Swiss side of the border to Zermatt.
The new Plateau Rosà cable car will, the resort days, offer better comfort and better views from the futuristic cabin design manufactured by Doppelmayr.
"The maxi windows will provide spectacular views during your ride up, the future is here from this winter on!" enthuses a statement from the resort.
Work preparing for the new lift began last summer when the first technical works were carried out to guarantee the general revision of the lift.
This Spring will see the continuation of these works and the replacement of the electronic and electromechanical parts, to be completed before the Summer ski opening on 2nd July 2011 and over the autumn break the cabins themselves will be replaced.
The new cable car is not the last being added to Europe's highest ski area, one of only two worldwide that tries to open (weather permitting) 365 a year for snowsports.
On the Zermatt side a new cable car from the top of the six man chairlift from Trockener Steg up to Furggsattel on the Italian border has been announced. The new 'Project' route is one of several that now appears on the Zermatt piste map, although a lift company spokesman told J2ski it probably won't be complete before 2014/15.
The new lift would produce a third route over the border which may prove preferable to the Klein Matterhorn cable car route – which can get very busy with long delays at peak times, or the long two-stage drag lift ride over the glacier by T Bar.
A second new cable car on the Zermatt side is also proposed from Plateau Rosa up to the Klein Matterhorn.
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