1 - Wednesday, April 20, LORK

- North Share News

$18. 5M WHISTLER. PROJECT

High-speed gondola to i
whisk skiers: up mountain

WHISTLER MOUNTAIN
has announced
build an $18.5 million high-
speed, enclosed gondola that

will take winter skiers and~

year-round | sightseers from

Whistler. Village to
less than 18: minutes.

_ The annotincement by Whistler

. * president Lorne Borgal follows the

\sate of the mountain's ski lifts and

‘facilities to Bartrac.Holdings Ltd.

the ,
mountain’s Roundhouse in -

plans to’ #

-and Marin Investments Lid. at the 1%

end of March.

According :to-the annoucement;
‘the Whistler, Express’ gondola,
“which. will” replace * the existing

; __ Millage Chair,-'is- a key clement in
"the mountajn: overhaul plans of
Whistler's’ new ownership. Work

\ ‘on gondola installation will begin
\ following | the last: day of ‘winter
operations, “May 8.

‘When.complete, the Express will
carry 160,
will be ‘capable of moving 2,606

Pa * skiers per : tiour. The: ride from
“Whistler ' Village to

- Reg. Price
89° "
. basket

10-passenger. cars, and:

the . Roun-

CONSTRUCTION of Whistler
Mountain's new high-speed gon-
dola wit! begin in the summer of

- 1988.

dhouse wil consequently be cut.

from 45 to 18 minutes.

Gondola loading stations will be

built: at) Whistler Village, the
Olympic. Bench and the Rotn-
dhouse. a
The project “will require (a
$300,000 upgrading of the Roun-

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 dhouse Station’ 5 vomit supply’ to

‘bring it up from £2,000 to 25,000
Designed as both a pass-!

volts.
through and loading (crminal, the
project’s Olympic station — will
eventually become the hub of the
Olympic Benchlands development
that will include a hotel con-
structed above the station. \

Skiers will be ablé to board the
Express carrying their skis rather
than having to load ‘them on Wift
racks outside cars,

Gondola ‘cabin floors level with
loading platform (will provide
wheelchair accessibility.

Designed and thanwfabtured “by:
Express.

POMA, the Whistler
‘system «will incorporate. 62 lift
towers, three 750- horsepower clec.
tric motors ‘and/10. kilometres of
steel cable.” au

The new gondola is part of a
Whistler overhaul plan that) in-
chides’ an addition to the Roun.
dhouse, “upgrading of existing
Alpine lifts, iit expansion in:
Whistler: [Alpine bowls and a major
upgrade ‘of the mountain's west.
side Facilities. |

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