• The Toulouse urban cable car, the longest in France, is due to be put into service by the end of the year.

  • In the meantime, one of its cabins is on display for 10 days in the city center.

  • She's playing selfie magnets.

"Are you sure we can get up to 34?"

"After the tourist selfies near the giant pylons on the hillsides, you no longer need to look up to imagine what Téléo, the urban cable car will look like in Toulouse" by the end of the year », To fly over the traffic jams - and the Garonne - between the University of Science, the CHU of Rangueil and The Oncopole.

Since this Friday morning, one of the cabins, with its steel blue livery, has been on display on the De Gaulle square, in the middle of the rue Alsace-Lorraine.

Transported at night, in a plastic camouflage which suggested that a giant container was going to be installed behind the Place du Capitole, the unveiled cabin quickly created the attraction.

Among the curious, Josiane, an ex-Toulousaine returned to the sources to go shopping. "With all the traffic jams there is, it's a good idea," said the retiree. But hey, she follows the news and decides that she will not immediately volunteer to take to the air. Arthur, a student from Lille, is much more excited. “It's still cool to have the longest cable car in France,” enthuses the cyclist. He has no reason to go to the Oncopole or the CHU but he will gladly fly over the Garonne. If the timing of the project gives him time… He is leaving the Pink City in six months.

The cabin will remain downtown until June 6.

Many other passers-by will therefore have the opportunity to take their picture in front.

And to realize, as the mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc recalls with a smile, that this new unprecedented mode of transport has "nothing to do with the Luchon cable car".

Several months of empty aerial ballet

While the cable pulling is finished, the 15 cabins that will equip Téléo should begin their “dry run” in July.

“We can see them running on empty for several months,” explains Jean-Michel Lattes, president of Tisséo.

Once in service, the cable car will take 10 minutes to connect the two terminuses, which are 3 kilometers apart as the crow flies.

Some 8,000 travelers per day should opt for this means of transport "30 times less polluting than the car".

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