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The length of the cableway route from Kuźnice (Zakopane) to Kasprowy Wierch is 4,291.59 meters. The cable car overcomes 936 m of level difference at an average gradient of 22%, moving on 6 supports. The carriage travels at a speed of 8 m / s (slowing up to 6 m / s on supports), transporting a maximum of 60 people at one time. Depending on the season of the day, it can export over 3,000 people, and more than 600,000 a year. The initiator of the railway construction was the president of the Polish Ski Association and the deputy minister of transport, Eng. Aleksander Bobkowski. Field work began on August 1, 1935.