- 27 Aug, 2021
The project involves a "pendulum" cable car, with a route in two sections with three stations and four supports, designed to have a dual purpose: on the one hand a tourist attraction and on the other a function as an alternative public transport system. The system will allow users to reach all sixteen forts that characterize the eco-museum route of the Genoese forts.
The project allows direct accessibility from the urban area to Forte Begato, reconnecting the western branch of the Central System of Genoese Forts and aims to enhance the historical-cultural heritage of the Lagaccio district. The intervention favors the implementation of maintenance and improvement works to the surrounding roads and allows to minimize the impact on the district's traffic flow of people connected to the renewed usability of the Fort System, the park of the former Gavoglio Barracks and the sports area above.
The choice of the overflight line over the city and the surrounding hills was considered the best among the various possible routes studied, mainly for the following reasons:
- less interference with the overflown urban fabric, characterized by restricted areas, roads, inhabited areas of the city, interference with streams, power lines, private property areas, consequently subjecting the C.A. to fewer expropriations and compensations;
- less difficulty in finding available spaces for the installation of line supports;
- greater simplicity in finding an adequate and immediately available public space for the departure station;
- lower costs deriving also from a cable car route that is certainly shorter than others.
The areas crossed by the cable car quickly (about 8 minutes) touch urbanized areas and very large hilly districts, morphologically different and of varied settlement and naturalistic nature.
