In the hills of Rio de Janeiro's Complexo do Alemão stands a cable car that once ferried ... program launched in the lead-up to the 2016 Olympics. The 3.4-kilometre, six-station service provided ...

A rundown part of Rio de Janeiro is being regenerated ahead of the 2016 Olympics, with £20 million spent on a flagship cable car. Authorities hope to imitate the transformation of east London ...

Image: AFP/Guiseppe Cacace A cable car built over one of Rio de Janeiro’s most violent favelas as a symbol of hope stands idle today, a ride to nowhere in a city whose recent Olympic glory has ...

"The Olympics were coming ... friends who made a living off of it," he said. Now even the cable car's fiercest critics agree: If Rio was going to build a vanity project to shuttle people above ...

Post-Rio life has been more than ... And the $65 million cable car that was supposed to benefit Brazilians after the Olympics was shuttered after the state stopped funding it.

Brazil is likely to lose more than $15 billion on the Olympics. &#151 ... He described the cable car system that takes people over the city's famous favelas, where the majority of its poor ...

The 2016 Rio ... cable and digital advertising; the most for any media event in U.S. history. $2 Billion: Net advertising expenditure boost to the global market from the Summer Olympics.