CN Tower's new glass elevator sets world record
Updated Wed. Apr. 9 2008 8:23 AM ET
The Canadian Press
TORONTO -- People afraid of heights or elevators need not attend as the CN Tower introduces the world's highest glass floor elevator.
After losing its 32 year world record last fall for tallest freestanding structure, Toronto's famed building is looking to set a new one.
Today the tower will begin offering visitors a thrilling new perspective on the city -- 346 metres straight down.
Dubbed a North American first and the highest in the world, the recently completed glass elevator now includes two glass-floor panels totalling two metres of floor space.
The new thrill ride will be available to the public starting at 11 a.m.
The 553-metre CN Tower was knocked out of the top spot by the Burj Dubai -- a 160 storey hotel, residential and commercial building in the United Arab Emirates.
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What a great structure that is. Char your gonna have to go try out that glass floor elevator and then tell us about it. I can just imagine the ride down !
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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.
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Very good Bill, nice pics thanks for sharing. To me Toronto is the most beautiful city in Canada. Have you ever seen the view from the very top (Space Deck) at night ?
Very much breath taking... In one documentary by the late Glenn Gould, he said of the view from the Tower, "on a clear day you can actually see Buffalo."
Thanks again Bill, you ressemble the late Ernie Coombs ( Mr. Dress Up ) to me anyway. Char is probably gonna say Peter Mansbridge ??
CN Tower glass elevator has a glass floor now..
