Emirates Air Line (cable car)

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Emirates Air Line
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The three pylons, seen from north of the River Thames
Overview
StatusOpen
Locale Greenwich/Docklands, London, United Kingdom
TerminiEmirates Greenwich Peninsula (west)
Emirates Royal Docks (east)
Website tfl.gov.uk/modes/emirates-air-line/
Service
Type Gondola lift
Operator(s) Transport for London
Ridership1,314,783 (in 2018) [1]
History
Opened28 June 2012;9 years ago (2012-06-28) [2]
Technical
Line length1,100 m (3,600 ft)
CharacterElevated
Electrification Electric motor powering cable bullwheel
Operating speed14 mph
Highest elevation90 m (300 ft)
Route map

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The Emirates Air Line, nicknamed the Dangleway, [3] [4] is a cable car link across the River Thames in London, England, built by Doppelmayr with sponsorship from the airline Emirates. The service opened on 28 June 2012 and is operated by Transport for London (TfL). [5] [6] [7] [8] In addition to transport across the river, the service advertises "a unique view of London". [9] The duration of a single crossing is ten minutes (reduced to five minutes in rush hour as the service speed is increased). [10]

The service comprises a 0.62-mile (1.00 km) gondola line that crosses the Thames from the Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Victoria Dock, to the west of ExCeL London. The cable car is based on monocable detachable gondola (MDG) technology, a system which uses a single cable for both propulsion and support, used also on the Metrocable in Medellín, Colombia. The MDG system was reportedly cheaper and quicker to install than a more complex three-cable system which would have allowed larger-capacity cars. [11] The total cost of the project was around £60 million.

History

Proposed Meridian Skyway

The idea for a cable car linking the Greenwich Peninsula with the north bank of the Thames first emerged during the development of the "car free" transport strategy for the Millennium Dome (now The O2) in the late 1990s. Presented to planning authorities in early 1997 by Meridian Cable Cars, this link would have run from the Dome site to the DLR's East India station in Tower Hamlets. [12]

The estimated cost of the cable car was £8-10 million, for 23 gondolas, each with seating for 9 and standing room for a further 6, that would have travelled at 5mph at between 50 and 80m in the air. Taking 3 minutes to make a one-way trip, it would have had a capacity of 2,500 passengers per hour each way. [13] [14] Full planning permission was granted in December 1997 and July 1998 for the northern and southern sides respectively, the northern side permission being one of the last acts of the London Dockland Development Corporation. [12] An opening date of October 1999 was planned, [15] but because of negative reactions from the administrators of the Dome project, financial backers pulled out and the cable car project collapsed in October 1998. [14]

System adopted

On 4 July 2010, Transport for London (TfL) announced plans to develop a cable car crossing over the River Thames, which would be the first urban cable car in the United Kingdom. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Expedition Engineering and Buro Happold, it crosses the river at a height up to 90 metres (300 ft), higher than that of the nearby O2 Arena. The cable car provides a crossing every 15 seconds, with a maximum capacity of 2,500 passengers per hour in each direction, about 50 busloads. [16] Bicycles may be carried. Passengers can pay for their journeys with pay-as-you-go Oyster cards. [17]

A planning application was submitted to the London Borough of Newham in October 2010 for the "erection of a cable car for the length of 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) over the River Thames from North Greenwich Peninsula to Royal Victoria Dock at a minimum clearance of 54.1 metres (177 ft) above mean high water springs". [18] The application listed the structures planned for the service on the north side of the Thames as an 87-metre (285 ft) north main tower at Clyde Wharf, a 66-metre (217 ft) north intermediate tower south of the Docklands Light Railway tracks roughly midway between Canning Town and West Silvertown stations, a two-storey gondola station and "boat impact protection" in Royal Victoria Dock. [18] South of the river there is a 60-metre (200 ft) main support tower and a boarding station within the O2 Arena car park.

When the project was announced, TfL's initial budget was £25 million; they announced this would be entirely funded by private finance. [17] This figure was first revised to £45 million, [19] and by September 2011 had more than doubled to £60 million, reportedly because TfL had not included the costs of legal advice, project management, land acquisition and other costs. [19] TfL planned to make up the shortfall by paying for the project out of the London Rail budget, applying for funding from the European Regional Development Fund and seeking commercial sponsorship. [19] €9.7m of ERDF support, out of an estimated €65.56m total budget, was agreed on 9 July 2012. [20]

In January 2011, News International was planning to sponsor the project, but withdrew its offer. [21] In October 2011 it was announced that the Dubai-based airline Emirates would provide £36 million in a 10-year sponsorship deal which included branding of the cable car service with the airline's name. [5]

The north-eastern terminal under construction beside Royal Victoria Dock, February 2012 Cross-Thames gondola station - geograph.org.uk - 2799842.jpg
The north-eastern terminal under construction beside Royal Victoria Dock, February 2012

Construction began in August 2011 with Mace as the lead contractor. [22] Mace built the cable car for £45 million and was to operate it for the first three years for a further £5.5 million. TfL stated that the initial construction funding and Emirates sponsorship would cover £36 million of the cost, with the rest to be funded from fares. [5] In 2011 it was the most expensive cable car system ever built. [11]

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Two gondolas approaching the north intermediate tower

In May 2012, TfL said that the cable car would be running by the summer of 2012, and that while there were no plans to have it open before the 2012 Olympic Games, there would be plans in place in case it was opened in time. [7] The public opening took place at noon on 28 June 2012, almost a month before the Opening Ceremony of the games. [8] [23] TfL reported that the total cost of the project was about £60 million, of which £45 million went towards construction. It estimates that the service can carry 2,500 people per hour. [8]

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Woman boarding passenger gondola at Royal Victoria

There are 36 passenger gondolas, of which 34 are in use at any one time, with a maximum capacity of 10 passengers each. [24] All passenger gondolas are ready for disabled persons using wheelchairs, including those ones with leg rest extensions. There are also two (open) engineers' gondolas for use by maintenance staff.[ citation needed ]

Branding

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View from a car towards ExCeL
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View from a car towards The O2

The Emirates Air Line route was added to the London Tube map in June 2012. It is the first to have the sponsoring company's logo shown on the map. Similar to the representation of the Docklands Light Railway, the cable car route is displayed as a triple red stripe rather than a solid line, to distinguish it from London Underground lines. [25]

The service's logo is a red cartouche containing the Emirates logo and the TfL roundel, to reflect the corporate sponsorship by the airline. As with the marketing of the London Eye, the transit of the cable car is referred to as a "flight" [26] and marketing literature borrows language from the airline industry, such as referring to tickets as "boarding passes". [27]

The deal with TFL for Emirates Air Line branding, bringing in £3.6m a year, extended to summer 2022. [28] However, no sponsor had been found for the cable car—which at one point had just four regular users[ citation needed ]—at the end of the Emirates contract, even at less than a quarter of the price. After the deadline for submissions expired, Transport for London will have to bear the cost if the cable car continues in operation. It was not considered politically acceptable to terminate it as its instigator, Boris Johnson, had since become prime minister. It was reported that a senior TfL executive had joked that storm Eunice, which hit London in February 2022, damaging the Millennium Dome built to celebrate the new millennium, but leaving the cable car unscathed, had been their last hope (if it had destroyed the Air Line, it could have been discontinued without loss of face). [29]

Hours

In 2020 running hours were 07:00–22:00 from Monday to Thursday, 07:00–23:00 Friday, 08:00–23:00 Saturday, 09:00–22:00 Sunday from 1 April to 30 September, finishing an hour earlier from Sunday to Thursday the rest of the year. [30] With a capacity of 2,500 passengers an hour, the cable cars could carry up to 260,000 people a week in summer.

Fares

From 1 March 2022 the adult pay-as-you-go fare increased to £6, with the child fare 50% of the adult fare. [31]

In 2020 the fares were £4.50 for a single journey, or £3.50 when paid with a pay-as-you-go Oyster card, [30] or on presentation of a valid non-PAYG Oyster or Travelcard (the cable car is not fully integrated into Transport for London's ticketing system). [27] To encourage use of the service for commuting, further discounts are offered with a "frequent flyer" ticket which allows ten journeys within a twelve-month period. [32] The London Assembly and the Liberal Democrats have called for full fare integration. [33] [34]

Cash single fareOyster or Travelcard user"Frequent flyer"
Adult£6.00£4.00£1.70 (£17.00/10 trips)
Child£3.00£2.00£0.85 (£8.50/10 trips)

Stations

Royal Docks

The eastern end of the cable car line ( 51°30′28″N0°01′04″E / 51.5077°N 0.0179°E / 51.5077; 0.0179 (Emirates Air Line (Royal Docks terminus)) ) is at the Royal Docks, home to the ExCeL exhibition centre and the new London City Hall. The closest interchange to the Docklands Light Railway is at Royal Victoria station.

Greenwich Peninsula

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Greenwich Peninsula station at night

The western end of the cable car line ( 51°29′59″N0°00′30″E / 51.4998°N 0.0083°E / 51.4998; 0.0083 (Emirates Air Line (Greenwich terminus)) ) is within walking distance of The O2. The closest interchange with the London Underground is at North Greenwich. The nearest London River Services is at North Greenwich Pier and local London Buses services at North Greenwich bus station.

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Ridership

In the second week of October 2012 about 42,500 journeys were made. Journeys made fell to 23,000 for the same week in 2013. [35]

In November 2012, after the Olympics, passenger numbers dropped to less than 10% of capacity. Fewer than 0.01% of journeys were made on discounted commuter fares which were 10 for £16. [33]

As of 9 February 2013 there had been 1,815,212 passenger journeys since opening. The average passenger journeys for the period between 16 September 2012 and 9 February 2013 has been a mean of 31,601 a week and a median of 30,667. The highest usage during that period was an outlier of 70,704 for the week ending 3 November 2012, and the lowest usage was 14,755 for the week ending 2 February 2013. In November 2013, it was reported that there were only four Oyster card users qualifying for a discount available to people making more than five journeys a week. [35] [36] [37] From 29 August 2015 to 20 August 2016, an average of 28,400 weekly journeys were made, with a standard deviation of 11,000; the figures for the year to 8 February 2020 were average 23,961, SD 9,790. More journeys were made in the warmer months. [38]

In 2020, during the covid pandemic, Emirates Air Line briefly appeared useful when it offered free travel to key workers who needed to reach the Nightingale hospital at ExCeL London; the hospital was later found unnecessary, and mothballed. [29]

Criticisms

Critics of the cable car have dismissed it as an impractical transport solution, which will appeal to tourists at peak times but is unlikely to attract a large number of cross-river locals or commuters due to its location and the cost of tickets. [39] [40] It was similarly labelled a 'white elephant'. [41] There has also been criticism of the project's £24 million-plus cost to taxpayers, caused by a budget overrun. Boris Johnson, the former Mayor of London, had said the cost of the scheme would not be underwritten by taxpayers.

The cable car's location has also caused controversy, with advocates of walking and cycling favouring a Sustrans-sponsored plan for a walking and cycling bridge east of Tower Bridge between Rotherhithe and Canary Wharf. [42]

The scheme was also criticised because the original contract forbade the use of funds from Israel, which the UAE did not recognise diplomatically at that time. It imposed restrictions on "(i) any Competitor; or (ii) any person who is a national of, or who is registered, incorporated, established or whose principal place of business is in a country with which the United Arab Emirates does not at the date of this Contract or at any relevant point during the Term maintain diplomatic relations." [43] The contract also forbade the mayor or Transport for London from criticising the governments or royal families of the United Arab Emirates, or the contract. [44] The clause regarding Israel was later removed. [45]

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