by hausen » June 20, 2020, 9:34 am
Paul A wrote:By memory, a story in the late 80's or early 90's from the Minneapolis Strib of a lady that panicked and ran off the bridge during lift to her gruesome demise ended this delightful opportunity.
The opportunity for the general public to ride the bridge as a leisure activity was already a thing of the past many years before the 1990 accident. Aerial Bridge rides as a paid attraction lasted just a few years in the 1960s or early 1970s. Coordinating a group of the general public for a lift and managing them during the event proved to be too much of a hassle and the practice was discontinued.
Seems like with today's regimented summer lift schedule for small craft, reduced number of freighter passages, publicly-available AIS data, smartphone technology, and robust tourism industry, enabling something like this again on a limited basis would be more feasible.
[quote="Paul A"]By memory, a story in the late 80's or early 90's from the Minneapolis Strib of a lady that panicked and ran off the bridge during lift to her gruesome demise ended this delightful opportunity.[/quote]
The opportunity for the general public to ride the bridge as a leisure activity was already a thing of the past many years before the 1990 accident. Aerial Bridge rides as a paid attraction lasted just a few years in the 1960s or early 1970s. Coordinating a group of the general public for a lift and managing them during the event proved to be too much of a hassle and the practice was discontinued.
Seems like with today's regimented summer lift schedule for small craft, reduced number of freighter passages, publicly-available AIS data, smartphone technology, and robust tourism industry, enabling something like this again on a limited basis would be more feasible.