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Maintenance Tender for Lisbon's 140yo Cable Cars Scrapped over Price Just Days Before Deadly Crash
Maintenance tender for the 140-year-old Elevador da Glória was cancelled due to bids exceeding budget despite ongoing safety concerns raised by employees.
- On Monday, Carris cancelled the maintenance tender for the Elevador da Glória funicular after finding the bidders' proposals exceeded the base price.
- The tender was for the historic Elevador da Glória funicular that serves Lisbon, which crashed on Wednesday, killing 17 people.
- The cart derailed and smashed into a building around 6pm local time, injuring 23 people, while Becky, an American witness, arrived shortly after and saw body bags at the scene.
- Lisbon's mayor declared three days of mourning, the public prosecutor's office launched an investigation, and Pedro de Brito Bogas, Carris chief, said the company assists authorities while a colleague of the driver urged learning and an independent probe.
- Manuel Leal, Portuguese union official, said Carris employees filed successive complaints about maintenance, while the Australian government said it was unaware of affected citizens.
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The funicular accident that occurred on Wednesday in Lisbon revives the question of the maintenance and control of such equipment in the Hexagon. Illustration with the two « strings » of Lyon and their red livery, of quasi-similar era. These funiculars have a programme of inspection declined in several levels.
At least 16 people were killed in the accident of the world famous funicular lift Elevador da Glória. According to the first information, Austrians are not among them. It was the most serious accident in the history of local transport in the Portuguese capital.
The race was opened on April 28 of this year and closed almost four months later, without success. The dead rise to 17
Suitors submitted proposals in excess of 1,19 million euros, an amount above what Carris was willing to pay. The transport company, however, guarantees that a new contract has been concluded.
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