At 10:44 AM 11/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Salts, Peter wrote:
>>
>> Parkin Lee writes:
>>
>> Just got a look at a picture of the new chairs on the Green Mountain Flyer
>> at
>> Jay Peak and I was wondering if I was seeing them correctly.  Do they
really
>> NOT
>> have safety bars on those chairs?  I can't imagine an insurance company
>> letting
>> them do that.
>>
>> Isn't it VT state law that every chairlift must have a safety bar?
>>
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>
>I don't know about Vermont, but New York law not only requires safety
>bars, it requires that you drop/use the safety bars. Contrast this to
>Colorado, where many lift do not have bars at all.  Does anyone know why
>the western resorts are less rigorous with respect to bars?

I asked a local person about this when I was in Lake Tahoe last March.  The
opinion seems to be that if you were too stupid to fall off, you shouldn't
have been riding the chair in the first place.

Jon

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