The Téléphérique du Salève is a passenger cable car

Aerial tramway

An aerial tramway , cable car , ropeway or aerial tram is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion...

 connecting Veyrier (just across the French border from Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

) with the Saleve

Salève

Le Salève is a mountain of the French Prealps, rising to 1,400 metres and towering over the city of Geneva in Switzerland. Despite its proximity to Geneva, the Salève is located in France, in the Chablais area of the Haute-Savoie department....

 ridge.

The cable car was inaugurated in 1932, replacing a now-disused rack railway (for which one of the tunnels can still be seen walking up).

The base station in Veyrier (located a short walk from the border crossing) is at an altitude of 432m, with the top station at 1097m. The cable car climbs very steeply due to the near-vertical face of the ridge, with an ascension of 665m in an overall length of 1172m.

The cars carry 60 people each and at weekends during the summer the service runs every few minutes, with a less regular service during the week. A limited weekend-only service runs in winter.

Tickets are sold in both Euros and Swiss Francs and a discount is offered for holders of passes for Transports Publics Genevois

Transports Publics Genevois

Geneva Public Transport operates most of the public transportation system in Geneva Canton, Switzerland, including the city of Geneva. The agency's head office is in Grand-Lancy, Lancy....

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External links

Official site (in French)