Mexico City Cable Cars Soar Above Gridlock

The Cablebús system transports more than 100,000 people each day and dramatically reduces commute times in the Mexican capital.

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August 25, 2025, 8:00 AM PDT

By Diana Ionescu @aworkoffiction


Blue aerial gondolas over colorful Mexico City neighborhood.

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Mexico City’s Cablebús aerial gondola system, launched in 2021, is quickly becoming an important part of the city’s transportation system.

As Carlos Rosado van der Gracht explains in Yucatan Magazine, Mexico City has infamously bad traffic, with 7.5 million registered vehicles on its roads. Now, the cable car system has cut some commutes from two hours or more to 17 minutes. “Unlike cities like Zacatecas, this is not a tourist attraction; it’s a form of public transit designed to connect some of the city’s most densely populated and geographically challenging neighborhoods, often located on steep hillsides in the eastern and northern reaches of the city and beyond into the greater CDMX metropolitan area in surrounding Mexico State.”

The system adds to Mexico City’s robust public transit offerings, which include the second-largest Metro system in North America and seven bus rapid transit (BRT) lines.

Wednesday, August 20, 2025 in Yucatan Magazine

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