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Junta de Andalucía asks for more documentation on cable car project to the Sierra Nevada
By m.p.
Oct 29, 2007 - 6:34 PM

The Junta de Andalucía has asked the consortium which wants to build the longest cable car in the world for additional documentation on their proposal to link Granada City with the Sierra Nevada ski resort.

The Junta’s environment councillor, Fuensanta Coves, told journalists on Monday that her department does not want to make any hasty decisions on the environmental impact of such an important project, and is waiting for further information from the promoters after detecting what EFE describes as a series of deficiencies: the news agency notes some of them as a failure to guarantee that the cable car will not alter the ecosystem; that it has not been proven to be in the public interest; and that it is presented as complementary to travel by car, rather as an alternative.

Coves added that other reports on the project are also to come from unspecified international bodies.

This private initiative proposes a 19 km cable car line from the city up to the slopes, capable of carrying 45,000 passengers a day. The Environment Ministry came out against the proposal earlier this month, saying that it would irreversibly alter the ecosystem of the National Park and is ‘incompatible’ with the Park’s objectives.