{"id":276326,"date":"2019-05-18T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T06:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiTmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvY29tcGFueS1wbGFucy1jYWJsZS10cmFpbi1ldGhpb3BpYdIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:36","slug":"the-reporter-sky-way-investment-group-pitched-a-cable-train-system-for-ethiopian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276326","title":{"rendered":"The Reporter: Sky Way Investment Group pitched a cable-train system for Ethiopian cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 May 2019 The Reporter Ethiopia wrote that Sky Way Investment Group had presented plans for a commercial cable-train system in Ethiopia, marketed as a compact elevated transport technology.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Reporter: Sky Way Investment Group pitched a cable-train system for Ethiopian cities\" \/>\n<p>Addis Ababa and other cities already struggled with congestion, light-rail limits, and uneven road quality. A cable-train pitch was one more foreign tech offer in a capital hungry for mobility projects and short on hard currency.<\/p>\n<p>Announcements are not built lines. Still, the proposal belongs in the 2019 infrastructure file beside light rail, bus rapid transit talk, and Chinese-built roads that reshape how people move through the Horn\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n<p>As urban tech archive, the Reporter note dates who was selling cable transport to Ethiopia and why space-saving systems sounded attractive on paper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/company-plans-cable-train-ethiopia\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company plans cable train for Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaSky Way Investment Group (SWIG) has pitched its ideas of a commercial cable train in Ethiopia \u2013 a globally new technology which is said to be less space &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19SS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754802,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276326\/revisions\/754802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}