Sky-high wire automobile takes moody over Thames

Think Swiss Alps rather than San Francisco.

A new wire automobile is mountainous over a Thames River, apropos partial of a London landscape only in time for a Summer Olympics.

It is called a Emirates Air Line, after a atmosphere conduit invested 36 million pounds ($56 million) as partial of a 10-year sponsorship deal.

The wire automobile will make a half-mile (one kilometer) channel between Greenwich and a Royal Docks, permitting visitors to take in views of Olympic Park, a Canary Wharf financial core and a Thames Barrier, large structures in a stream that keep London from flooding.

Each of a 34 cars binds 10 people and looks like a gondolas that packet skiers adult a plateau in a Swiss Alps. Travelers can go one approach or round-trip, with a one-way sheet costing 3.20 pounds ($5).

Aside from being only plain fun, a wire automobile should assistance palliate open ride forward of a London games, that start Jul 27 and finish Aug. 12.

The Associated Press

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