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Jesse Joe · 04-10-2008, 06:45 AM

It can hold 14 hippos !

CN Tower installs glass-floor elevator

Published Thursday April 10th, 2008

TORONTO - After losing its 32-year status as the tallest freestanding structure on the planet, Toronto's iconic CN Tower has something new to brag about: the world's highest glass-floor elevator that offers visitors a thrilling perspective of the city.

Shooting upwards at 22 kilometres per hour, visitors can now watch the ground below them fall away as the elevator soars 346 metres in just 58 seconds.
For those who dare to stand atop one of the elevator's two narrow glass floor panels -- each a little more than five centimetres thick -- the trip is perhaps even more harrowing on the way down.
Plunging down the concrete elevator shaft, the nail-biting perspective gives riders the sense they might crash right into the ground. But of course that won't happen, a CN Tower staff member assured a group of students.
"It can hold 14 hippos, so it's very, very safe," he said.

04-10-2008, 06:45 AM	#8
Jesse Joe Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 6,862	Re: CN Tower glass elevator has a glass floor now.. It can hold 14 hippos ! CN Tower installs glass-floor elevator Published Thursday April 10th, 2008 TORONTO - After losing its 32-year status as the tallest freestanding structure on the planet, Toronto's iconic CN Tower has something new to brag about: the world's highest glass-floor elevator that offers visitors a thrilling perspective of the city. Shooting upwards at 22 kilometres per hour, visitors can now watch the ground below them fall away as the elevator soars 346 metres in just 58 seconds. For those who dare to stand atop one of the elevator's two narrow glass floor panels -- each a little more than five centimetres thick -- the trip is perhaps even more harrowing on the way down. Plunging down the concrete elevator shaft, the nail-biting perspective gives riders the sense they might crash right into the ground. But of course that won't happen, a CN Tower staff member assured a group of students. "It can hold 14 hippos, so it's very, very safe," he said.