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Originally Posted by rick35
How about a Funiculare from the dock to the top of the hill? Look what it did for Quebec City. The view would be worth it.
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Make sure they use good cable. I recall going up the Quebec funicular the summer after there was a bad accident there. See below:
British Passenger Dies, 15 Hurt in Quebec Cable Car Plunge
Associated Press, 10/14/96; 03:32
QUEBEC (AP) - A cable snapped on a tourist ride carrying people down a
cliff to Quebec City's historic lower town. A British woman was killed
and 15 were injured when the cable car smashed into a wall at the
bottom of the hill.
The accident happened Saturday when the cable snapped near the end of
its downward run.
An emergency brake failed to stop the car, which sped out of control
and into the wall of a booth where passengers enter and exit the car.
``It was a dreadful mess,'' said Marcel Auclair, a city
resident. ``People were piled on top of each other.''
The dead woman was identified as Helen Tombs, 46, of London.
Ms. Tombs was traveling in a group on a 10-day tour of eastern Canada.
The 12 women and four men aboard the cable car were also from Ohio,
Massachusetts and New Hampshire as well as the French islands of
St. Pierre and Miquelon. Most sustained fractures, bruises and were in
shock.
Andre Morin, manager of Otis Canada, declined to speculate on the
cause of the accident. The cable car, he said, can carry up to 20
people.
The trip normally takes a minute or so, offering a view of the city,
the St. Lawrence River and Quebec's walled quarter atop the cliff.