Cable car to unlock new economic opportunities

(From left) Ravindran presenting a token of appreciation to Chow. With them is Mohamed Nazri at the signing ceremony for the financing of Penang Hill Cable Car Development. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

ONE feature of the coming Penang Hill cable car system that often gets misunderstood is its ability to “carry 1,400 passengers per hour in each direction”.

“This does not mean we are going to move that many passengers per hour to the hilltop – that is a parameter for the engineers to plan for.