The Portland Aerial Tram is owned by the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and operated by OHSU. This photograph exhibits the evacuation drill performed in 2013. The train has been performed yearly because the Portland Aerial Tram opened in 2007. Photograph by Felicity J. Mackay, Portland Bureau of Transportation.
Members of the Portland Fireplace & Rescue Technical Rescue Workforce will lead the train. They are going to be assisted by representatives from each the Metropolis of Portland, whose Bureau of Transportation owns the tram, and Oregon Well being & Science College, which operates the tram together with Doppelmayr USA.
Utilizing ropes and harnesses, the workforce will decrease 4 Doppelmayr workers enjoying the position of passengers 100 ft to the highest ground of the OHSU Casey Eye Institute’s parking storage.
The coaching permits crews to apply an aerial rescue within the occasion the tram is stopped for an prolonged time period with passengers on board. If members of the general public contact you with questions in regards to the coaching, please inform them that it is a scheduled coaching train and never an actual emergency.
The train has been performed yearly because the Portland Aerial Tram opened on Jan. 27, 2007, and is designed to offer personnel with expertise in executing a final resort security measure. There has by no means been an actual emergency.
Greater than 4,000 every day commuters and vacationers experience the Portland Aerial Tram, one in every of solely two aerial gondolas used for city public transit in america.
Occasion Particulars: Annual Portland Aerial Tram evacuation train
WHEN:
9 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 9. The train must be accomplished by midday.
LOCATION AND NEWS MEDIA INSTRUCTIONS:
The coaching will happen above the OHSU Casey Eye Institute parking storage. At that location, a small variety of train members will probably be evacuated from the tram and lowered through ropes and harnesses right down to the highest of the parking construction. Native information crews are welcome to movie the evacuation from sidewalks instantly adjoining to the primary thoroughfares, e.g., SW Campus Drive and SW Sam Jackson Park Street. To achieve an OHSU media relations specialist Monday by way of Friday, 8:30 a.m. to five p.m., please electronic mail [email protected]. In case you want help over the weekend, please name 503-494-8311 and ask the operator to web page the media relations specialist on name.
SPECTATORS:
The Portland Aerial Tram is closed on Sundays. Because of this, the coaching train won’t intervene with common operations. For these all in favour of observing, please accomplish that from close by areas and chorus from coming into the Casey Eye Institute parking zone.
ABOUT THE PORTLAND AERIAL TRAM
The Portland Aerial Tram is owned by the Metropolis of Portland’s Bureau of Transportation and operated by OHSU. It opened to the general public on Jan. 27, 2007. The cabins, named Walt and Jean, journey 3,300 linear ft between the South Waterfront terminal adjoining to the OHSU Middle for Well being & Therapeutic and the higher terminal on the Kohler Pavilion on OHSU’s most important campus. Touring at 22 miles per hour, the tram cabins rise 500 ft for the three-minute journey over I-5, the Lair Hill neighborhood and the Southwest Terwilliger Parkway. Go to GoByTram.com or discover the tram on Twitter and Fb and Instagram.
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