After years of delays, Port Authority officials will replace Newark airport’s trouble-prone and cramped 27-year-old monorail system with a cable car, approving two contracts totaling $950 million Thursday. This is not the cute bell clanging San Francisco type of cable car, but more similar to a cable-powered system across the bay used on the 3.1-mile Bay Areas Rapid Transit connector line that serves Oakland’s airport, and in other airports around the globe. Authority commissioners awarded the two contracts to DCCCA1 Doppelmayr Cable Car Company at Thursday’s board meeting to design and and bu…