The cable car to Sněžka is completed, it could start transporting people from December 21

Pec pod Sněžkou (Trutnovsko) - The new cable car to the highest Czech mountain Sněžka is completed from a construction standpoint. It is now awaiting load tests, reviews, and inspections. If everything goes smoothly, the cable car could start operating for the public on December 21. This would be about three months earlier than scheduled in the contract between the construction company BAK Trutnov and the cable car company Leitner. Jiří Martinec, the head of cable car operations, told ČTK today.
    The main load test for the cable car, which costs about 300 million crowns, is scheduled for Monday, December 18. "The cable car will be tested with several dozen beer barrels of Paroháč beer, brewed at Luční bouda on the ridges of the Krkonoš," Martinec stated. He added that in addition to the cable car's technology, the lower and upper stations as well as the intermediate station on Růžová hora are also finished.
    The original cable car to Sněžka ceased operations in the upper section last May and in the lower section in early September. The new cable car features more comfortable four-seat cabins instead of the previous open two-seat chairs. The hourly capacity of the cable car remains at 250 people, but it should resist wind better.
    Each year, 200,000 people used the services of the old cable car from 1949, and about half of them reached Sněžka. The investor of the cable car is the town of Pec pod Sněžkou, which received a grant from EU funds for the construction.