This seems like it should be a simple “no, there’s no other crack” or “there is a second crack that formed as a result of the stress and it’s also being repaired” but neither was included in their statement… Hell, one could interpret what they said as “there’s multiple issues that we are working on”.
I am not concerned that the ride is going to reopen and be unsafe but Cedar Fair just really isn’t good at communicating things… If there’s nothing else seriously wrong why not just say that? Why be dodgy?
Whatever is going on I’m sure it’ll be safe by time it opens. I just wonder if Cedar Fair is trying to obscure that they missed a lot more than a problem with a single support. Have they even been looking over this coaster at all in the off season? Missing one major crack that guests ended up catching for them is pretty bad but just imagine if that wasn’t the only problem with the ride that they had been overlooking.
In my mind this is more PR blundering than anything else… And maybe a sign that CF hasn’t been inspecting their rides (prior to this event) as well as they should have been.
Interesting, I didn’t see that statement initially and you have a point. Hopefully it’s just typical vague PR speak and not indicative of more, but if it does come out that there are more issues that is very damning of their maintenance practices.
For me it’s the statement Carowinds sent to WSOC that seems… odd.
https://twitter.com/JoeBrunoWSOC9/status/1684695128311492608
This seems like it should be a simple “no, there’s no other crack” or “there is a second crack that formed as a result of the stress and it’s also being repaired” but neither was included in their statement… Hell, one could interpret what they said as “there’s multiple issues that we are working on”.
I am not concerned that the ride is going to reopen and be unsafe but Cedar Fair just really isn’t good at communicating things… If there’s nothing else seriously wrong why not just say that? Why be dodgy?
Whatever is going on I’m sure it’ll be safe by time it opens. I just wonder if Cedar Fair is trying to obscure that they missed a lot more than a problem with a single support. Have they even been looking over this coaster at all in the off season? Missing one major crack that guests ended up catching for them is pretty bad but just imagine if that wasn’t the only problem with the ride that they had been overlooking.
In my mind this is more PR blundering than anything else… And maybe a sign that CF hasn’t been inspecting their rides (prior to this event) as well as they should have been.
Interesting, I didn’t see that statement initially and you have a point. Hopefully it’s just typical vague PR speak and not indicative of more, but if it does come out that there are more issues that is very damning of their maintenance practices.