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The correct term is "Bus Bar", as it transport power 'for all'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busbar Although you'd get a pretty big buzz should you touch it and complete a circuit (750V DC).

I'd expect the whole park to be closed for a clean for a day. The key reason for details in the restaurant, is allowing the contact tracers to focus on the most at risk cases first. The lady who has returned to Japan is a good example of this. They only need to contact people there at a certain time. It brings the list of people down to maybe 20 people vs an entire theme park of potentially 5000 (is that the current limitation) people. Meanwhile, the airlines get to play hardball - they don't have to provide a flight manifest, as the people who purchased tickets haven't agreed to their data being shared with the health departments 🙄(and that is from a reliable source, one of the Qld Gov Coronavirus team). Hence why the government has to publicly call for passengers to come forward.

It just keeps the rules simple. Probably stops the "Karen's" complaining when they don't see people's details being recorded too.

Just chuck them in a couple of rented caravans right next to the ride site and put them straight to work.

Thanks @Pyro & @AlexB for that information, missed that (clearly)

Airlines weren't handed cash, they where handed discounts on landing fees etc - which when you aren't flying planes doesn't mean much. Virgin Aus asked for $1.4 billion and got told to go away. Alan Joyce made fun of them as Qantas was ok, then a few months later started sticking his hand out too. Virgin Aus got $200 mil from the Qld Government to stay in Qld.

Aren't worker entitlements protected under law, before any secured creditors (I think I read something during the Virgin Aus collapse that said that)?

The thing is, that two week wait in quarantine isn't going away anytime soon. The challenge at the moment is getting flights through from anyway to Australia (reports seem to be it is taking about a week from Europe). There is a cap of 4000 people per week to Australia, so only around 80 flights a week. Airlines also are limited to 50 passengers per flight into Australia, so they are cancelling any tickets that aren't business class as they make the most money. The remaining space is taken up by freight which doesn't complain about the leg room in economy.

@AlexB thanks, knew you'd provide a good explanation.

Genuine questions, not stirring. I'm not a finance type person. Did Macquarie Capital have anything to do with Macquarie Leisure (now Ardent)? As Robin Bishop was head of Macquarie Capital prior to BGH. And what is a private equity firm? My impression is they buy something big, then split it into pieces then sell it for a greater profit.

VRTP is about to sell to a foreign investment company, and they are getting propped up just like Ardent. All future profits are about to go overseas. Same difference.

VRTP also received funds, a government can't favour one part of the industry over another.

Of course, forgot about that station.

Is there anything stopping them turning the entire train around and running the other direction? The automatic boom gates could be rewired, that is the only thing I can think of. I don't remember the carriage design and if you can access the seats from each side. And with all the machinery required to setup the coaster site, getting the grading and curve right shouldn't be took much work.

On the coloured drawing, their is a retaining wall structure running through the main line in a few places. The current mainline also has an access road on top it. The new mainline appears to turn left before Rocky Hollow station, head between the tower and motocoaster then into the main station. Would cut about 700m off the journey by my calculations. Nearly halving it's total length.

Well spotted. That should help the "abomination" out too, removing the steep grade and tight radius curve. That's to pre-queue three passengers worth of trains.

The first two letters of Parkz stand for "Passive Aggressive". You'll learn to ignore it soon enough.

From memory, the lift went up, stopped, then the rear raised and rolled you forward. The track turned left, through some fog and into the splash down. Unload was just around another left hand bend.

There were plenty of complaints on here about it, particularly the disco room part.

I hated the lift, liked the coaster part, hated the splash down.

I've had lifts in buildings I have managed get there certificates issued each year, never inspected by a third party. Possibly the service company was doing them. Body Corporate would pay the invoice and a few weeks later I'd have to stick up a new certificate in the lift.

Yeah, no one wants to see me in swimming gear, haven't been to Wet n Wild in 12 years. Hence why I forget about it.

Yep, the name doesn't lend itself to any easy theming. At least 'The Whirlpool' lets you use ground level and down. With some walls all around it, you could design the inside to force perspective a large hole. Perhaps this was the original idea but the name wasn't possible (what with the appliance company, internet forum etc).

So, how would you theme 'Vortex' with a sensible (non Disney budget)? The first image I get when someone says Vortex, is a tornado like structure, which is not a practical thing to replicate given the shear size (and height restrictions).

Agree, they over represented the 'theming' planned, but also that plan was released 17 months ago, designed even earlier than that. The world has changed and the $$$'s have dried up. I'd imagine we would have gotten better (but not exactly the plans) had the world continued on normally.