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What is really interesting though is that I am fairly sure that to take it down would be more expensive than erecting it. I don't think that the building method worked backwards would be possible because the cans would have welded themselves together under the pressure of the weight. It will...

Yep, I should have a look back myself. I started this thread with an interest in the engineering and documenting the build but I have always been cynical of the people behind it and always doubted the folly.

Yes total incompetence by our council officers, cough! Geoff Raw and his cough! partners in crime, who devised the plan for the loan against the council tax payer. The i360 was overwhelmingly more important to themselves personally than developing the King Alfred into a state of the art leisure...

There is supposed to be a zip wire built. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-37634571

I have always said that it would have been better suited to being located offshore at the end of a new pier, and now I am certain of it. It looks ok from the distance but as you get closer it is always in the line of sight as if a pencil is being held up close to ones eye. I have no problem with...

I can't see the point of having a bar for a 20 min ride, especially if it includes a queue and one person serving.

High seas on the Channel caused by a storm off the Sussex coast have prevented the fireworks boat from being able to travel to Brighton beach today, so British Airways i360’s firework and light show has been postponed and a new date will be confirmed shortly...

Yep I think you are right.

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It's not local tax payer’s money they are using, it was a government loan. The local tax payer is just the guarantor. I think they need to sell about 3 million rides to pay it off and the loan, I think is over 15- 20 years. At worst I think it should break even, but at the very worst, if no one...

Not to the tax payers directly. It goes to the council.

Yep, probably.

Does anyone know if the pod climbs up the cables, or the cables pull the pod up like a conventional lift?

Yep we have vertical observation towers like the CN Tower or Eiffel Tower but these use lifts to get up to an observation deck. The i360 describe the tech as vertical cable car technology, with an observation pod that moves up and down. This is the first time anything like this on this scale...

Only if it never operates.

Yep, but the council will be liable cover the loan payments if the i360 isn't trading. So it will certainly be keeping some people on their toes.

It says; "Probably almost every lift expert in the country has worked on it at one time or another. We've decided there's no point in pouring good money after bad." The i360 say that it is vertical cable car technology, but in reality it is a lift that no one has built before.

I seem to remember them trying fix it a good few years back. Probably mainly through lack of council motivation I would imagine. Let's hope the thought of losing £1/4m each week will keep them on their toes.

Yep, I'm shocked at this delay though. For all intent and purposes it can go up and down so all I can think that the problem is would be some sort of pod shake in the wind and they need to stabilise it better.

Apparently they are still testing the pod. Is it not as smooth a ride as they hoped? "Bosses had hoped to open the viewing attraction "in time for the school summer holidays" (July 22) with chief executive Eleanor Harris telling The Argus in May that an opening date would be confirmed in June...