Milan – A cable car intended to carry spectators to the women’s Olympic Alpine skiing events in Cortina will not be ready in time, prompting Games organizers to request school closures to ease the pressure on the Dolomite resort’s transport system, a letter seen by Reuters showed.
The Apollonio-Socrepes lift is one of the most contentious pieces of Olympic infrastructure for the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, which will be cohosted by the Alpine town of Cortina d’Ampezzo and Italy’s financial capital from February 6 to 22.
Work on the system, designed to take spectators from the town center directly to the slopes, began behind schedule, and some residents raised safety concerns about its location in an area prone to landslides. Despite mounting doubts over the project, still unfinished a week before the opening of the Games, Simico, the state-backed agency in charge of Olympics infrastructure, said on Friday that work on the site was progressing according to schedule.
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