Other than for planned maintenance, has the Sugar Loaf cable car operation ever been interrupted?

Yes. In 1935, Sugar Loaf’s Line 1 (Red Beach to Urca Hill) stopped for several months after the cables were caught in crossfire and hit by bullets during a skirmish led by revolutionaries of the Communist Conspiracy in Rio de Janeiro.

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