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Out of Towner said:
How would you address the public safety concerns if you were in a position of trust and responsibility? It's easy to make lofty generalizations about anything but to move something forward, you'll discover that answers that satisfy problems are necessary.
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It’s a paid service by a private business. It can be managed the same way as every other business does that has risks. This isn’t a new technology.
 
thommyjo said:
It’s a paid service by a private business. It can be managed the same way as every other business does that has risks. This isn’t a new technology.
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Paid service or not, if there is ice or broken up ice on the North Saskatchewan - which there is for good parts of every year - and emergency responders are unable to access the river and respond to an incident, then the gondola is a seasonal business.
 
Out of Towner said:
Paid service or not, if there is ice or broken up ice on the North Saskatchewan - which there is for good parts of every year - and emergency responders are unable to access the river and respond to an incident, then the gondola is a seasonal business.
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We should close our bridges in the winter in case they collapse and the river has ice.
 
CplKlinger said:
We should close our bridges in the winter in case they collapse and the river has ice.
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Lots of businesses in Edmonton and elsewhere are seasonal. The Edmonton Queen is a seasonal business that closes in winter. Ice roads up north are seasonal due to public safety concerns. Unless a gondola could satisfy public safety regulations, it would be a seasonal business too.
 
Out of Towner said:
Bad faith? Please explain because it's not an argument, it's the reality of a cold climate.
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There's literally gondolas that are nearly 450m above the ground (which also has a river below), between two mountains. Do you think emergency services can just put up a ladder there? No. It's a bad faith argument because there are obviously safety mechanisms in place in gondola systems.
 
The premise OOT seems to be working with is that a gondola rescue over the NSR would HAVE to be conducted via boat, as such a rescue would be impossible if the river was frozen. I seriously doubt that would be the way rescue services would approach it (even in the summer). Likely they would rappel along the cables to reach the cars.

That said, neither of us has experience in rescue operations so take what we both say with a grain of salt.
 
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an_edmontonian said:
The premise OOT seems to be working with is that a gondola rescue over the NSR would HAVE to be conducted via boat, as such a rescue would be impossible if the river was frozen. I seriously doubt that would be the way rescue services would approach it (even in the summer). Likely they would rappel along the cables to reach the cars.

That said, neither of us has experience in rescue operations so take what we both say with a grain of salt.
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The ability to evacuate passengers is something that safety protocols would insist on because leaving passengers stranded isn't an option. Besides an airlift by helicopter, what else is there?
 
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