🚲 Mobility

Mi Teleférico Cable Car Network & Contactless Ticketing

Mi Teleférico, the world's longest urban cable car network, links La Paz and El Alto across a canyon few roads can cross: 10 color-coded lines and around 30 stations. A $62 million IDB-backed programme approved in 2023 is extending the Brown Line 1.2km to reach 69,000 more residents and adding solar power at stations, as contactless Yala cards begin replacing paper tickets.

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📊 Impact

IDB financing ($62M, approved Oct 2023) extends the Brown Line to serve 69,000 residents of Las Villas and Pampahasi and funds solar power generation at stations (IDB).

Evidence🏛️ Official

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Cost≈$62M (Brown Line extension + station solar, IDB loan approved 2023)

📖 Terms in this entry: Bus rapid transit (BRT) · E-ticketing · Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS)

Sources

↗ Mi Teleférico (operator)Official infrastructure portal tracking regional transport network coordinates.

↗ Inter-American Development Bank (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Mi Teleférico Cable Car Network & Contactless Ticketing” — La Paz, Bolivia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/la-paz-teleferico-mesh/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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