Oasis station. Cerro San Cristobal Cable Car
Restored cable car terminal with a ticket hall, shops and wheelchair-accessible elevator into a hillside park.
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This guide to Oasis station on the Cerro San Cristóbal cable car in Santiago starts with a warning in December 2008, when a mechanical fault trapped twenty passengers above the eucalyptus canopy, followed six months later by a gearbox failure that shut the whole system down for good. It follows the seven years the cabins hung frozen on their cables, and a 2011 repair bid the government rejected outright as an unacceptable monopoly price. Two more years passed before officials tried again to fund the fix.
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