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Los Angeles – The Warner Bros. Studio proposes to build a cable car to access the famous Hollywood sign, one of the main tourist attractions of the capital of American cinema Los Angeles.
The cost of the project, which includes the construction of a visitor center near the inevitable white letters, is estimated at $ 100 million.
The Hollywood Sign is " an important historical landmark of the world-renowned city of Los Angeles ," Warner Bros. said in a statement released on Tuesday.
" His fame, however, has had negative effects, such as increased traffic in surrounding residential neighborhoods and security problems ," says the text. " The idea of a cable car has been proposed in the past and has recently emerged as a potential solution ".
The journey, which is 1.6 km long, would take about six minutes by cable car, in each direction. Although the facility will be erected on land owned by Warner, the company intends to seek the opinion of the city, residents and environmental badociations.
The green light from the Los Angeles City Council will be necessary anyway before the start of the project, for which no timetable has yet been established.
" We believe we are proposing the most environmentally friendly solution to protect and preserve Griffith Park and surrounding residential neighborhoods ," warns Warner.
Renovated and repainted in 2012, the giant letters are not accessible to the public, but it is possible to get close enough from the back by taking a trail on Mount Lee, where live many stars of the world of entertainment.
The panel was originally installed in 1923 to promote the " Hollywoodland " real estate project, but the last four letters were removed in the 1940s.
Nine donors committed themselves in the 1970s to take care of each of the remaining letters. But this tourist attraction almost disappeared when the owners of the lands located at the foot of the hill considered selling them.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner helped save the bill in 2010 with the support of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and celebrities like Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
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