Lisbon to design new mechanism ensuring funicular safety after crash

Lisbon's city council has tasked a team of experts with designing a new mechanism to ensure the safety of the Gloria funicular railway that had a deadly crash last week and will remain closed until its revamp, a city official said on Monday. "We must guarantee maximum security," the council's Vice President, Filipe Anacoreta Correia, told reporters, adding the country needed to be reassured that this was the case before the cable car could reopen. The group will include technicians from municipal public transport company Carris, which operates the funicular, and experts from universities, Portugal's engineering regulatory organization, and national civil engineering laboratory LNEC, Correia added. During an extraordinary meeting, the council also voted to give the expert team the...