{"id":17342,"date":"2021-07-13T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simagazin.com\/?p=17342"},"modified":"2021-07-13T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T10:39:57","slug":"cable-car-for-road-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/si-urban-en\/cable-car-for-road-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cable car for road workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 gradient-container-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e2e2e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first gradient-column-1\" style=\"width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 20px ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-builder-row .fusion-layout-column.gradient-column-1 .fusion-column-wrapper:before {content: \"\"; position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0;z-index:-1;background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, from(), to())!important;background: -webkit-linear-gradient(0deg, , )!important;background: -moz-linear-gradient(0deg, , )!important;background: -ms-linear-gradient(0deg, , )!important;background: -o-linear-gradient(0deg, , )!important;}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last gradient-column-2\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 20px ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>As reported by the South African portal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringnews.co.za\/article\/sanral-installs-cable-car-for-staff-at-msikaba-2021-07-06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Engineering News,<\/a> the travel time for employees around the construction site will be drastically reduced. Currently, it is a three-hour car ride, but soon construction workers will be able to cross the gorge in just three to four minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The cable car can accommodate up to six people or 500 kilograms of weight and will also transport materials between the banks. The focus, however, is on transporting leaders and specialists needed on both sides of the river.<\/p>\n<p>The state road authority has contracted a Swiss ropeway company for the installation, which is expected to be completed by the end of July.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The installation is a good example of how broad the range of applications for (urban) ropeways can be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1.65 billion rand Msikaba mega bridge will have a span of 580 meters and a height of 195 meters and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>It is part of the N2 Wild Coast road project, which involves upgrading 410 kilometers of road from East London to the Mtamvuna River on the border between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n<\/div><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" image_height=\"201\" image_id=\"17322\" title=\"Msikaba_Suspension_Proposal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simagazin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Msikaba_Suspension_Proposal.png\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-17322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Msikaba_Suspension_Proposal-200x81.png 200w, https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Msikaba_Suspension_Proposal-400x162.png 400w, https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Msikaba_Suspension_Proposal.png 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/span><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Image credit: By Sakowski \u2013 Wiki highest bridges.com,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=65694130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fair use<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-builder-row .fusion-layout-column.gradient-column-2 .fusion-column-wrapper:before {content: \"\"; position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0;z-index:-1;background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, from(), to())!important;background: -webkit-linear-gradient(0deg, , )!important;background: -moz-linear-gradient(0deg, , )!important;background: -ms-linear-gradient(0deg, , )!important;background: -o-linear-gradient(0deg, , )!important;}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) plans to install a temporary cable car between the north and south sides of the Msikaba Bridge Project on the N2 Wild Coast Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cities","category-si-urban-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17344,"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17342\/revisions\/17344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neu.simagazin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}