Cyclic Hotline
That's what i call a "DENSE POPULATED AREA"!
And "NO" the whole downtown wasn't evacuated.
And believe me hundreds of cellular phone transmitters in dense populated areas were placed in this manner. I confess that's not the way i find safe to do such work. I would insist on a twin, a hook system with redundancy and i would at least try to evacuate the working area. But please think about the costs of such strategy. Evacuating a bigger area in such downtown isn't to pay. The ratio between costs of the transmitter, helicopter ops, personal and evacuating isn't acceptable.
And cranes? We have also overturned cranes in cities.
This is a sample picture of the glacier in soelden not far away the accident site including the type of cable car.
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You can see in dense populated areas we are trying to find an agreement. But one this godforsaken glacier... such a tragedy