{"id":208013,"date":"2025-09-07T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208013\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:13:14","slug":"cable-broke-before-lisbon-funicular-crash-initial-findings-show-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208013\/","title":{"rendered":"Cable broke before Lisbon funicular crash, initial findings show \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators added that the brakeman of one of the carriages applied the brakes, but that this didn\u2019t have sufficient capacity to prevent the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Both carriages had travelled only six meters after leaving their stations on Wednesday, around 6 p.m., when the cable connecting them snapped, the report said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.policiajudiciaria.pt\/acidente-elevador-da-gloria-nacionalidades-das-vitimas-mortais\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sixteen people died<\/a> in Wednesday\u2019s crash, among them 11 foreigners: five Portuguese, two South Koreans, one Swiss, three Brits, two Canadians, one Ukrainian, one American and one French.<\/p>\n<p>Lisbon is holding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/lisbon-funicular-disaster-public-transport-maintenance\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/lisbon-funicular-disaster-public-transport-maintenance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local elections next month<\/a>, with incumbent Carlos Moedas, a former European Commissioner, seeking a second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators added that the brakeman of one of the carriages applied the brakes, but that this didn\u2019t have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[109941,90,50,124,114241,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-208013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-carlos-moedas","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-portugal","12":"tag-railways","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115163903021460795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}