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Many locals though have given it a cold welcome, complaining about the continuous hum of the cable pulleys.

So it's a cable railway. It seemed non-standard even for peoplemovers, but I indeed find a different technological origin in the same article:

Built by Leitner Technologies, an Italian engineering firm better known for its ski gondolas and high-speed lifts, the mini metro is being hailed as an engineering first.

I hear a faint echo of the Monorail Song.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}