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The wheel is planned to be in operation for five years. | The wheel is planned to be in operation for five years. | ||
==Operation== | |||
The Wheel's "pods" have windowed doors on either side, on the North side for entry and on the South side for exiting. | |||
The area below the base of the wheel (behind the ticket barriers) has multiple embarkation points that allow several of the wheel's pods to be "filled up" with customers at the same time while the wheel is stationary. Once the wheel has made a minimum of three circuits, it is stopped, and the pod doors on the South side of the wheel are opened to allow riders to disembark and leave. The doors are then shut and the doors on the North side opened to allow in a new set of riders, after which the process repeats. | |||
While the wheel rotates, loudspeakers inside the pods play a commentary by Steve Coogan. | |||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
Revision as of 13:13, 19 July 2014
The Brighton Wheel is a large temporary Ferriswheel that was built on Brighton Seafront in late 2011, just to the East of the Palace Pier, and next to the Volks Electric Railway's Aquarium Station.
The wheel is planned to be in operation for five years.
Operation
The Wheel's "pods" have windowed doors on either side, on the North side for entry and on the South side for exiting.
The area below the base of the wheel (behind the ticket barriers) has multiple embarkation points that allow several of the wheel's pods to be "filled up" with customers at the same time while the wheel is stationary. Once the wheel has made a minimum of three circuits, it is stopped, and the pod doors on the South side of the wheel are opened to allow riders to disembark and leave. The doors are then shut and the doors on the North side opened to allow in a new set of riders, after which the process repeats.
While the wheel rotates, loudspeakers inside the pods play a commentary by Steve Coogan.
