Skyway at Six Flags Great Adventure

This is the Skyway ride at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ. It's 104ft/31.69m tall at it's highest point and 4,500ft/1371.6m long with the capacity to move 1,440 people per hour. This ride is not original to the park as it was built for the World's Fair in New York City in 1964. It was then moved to Six Flags and rebuilt in 1974. It's a type 101 from Von Roll.

This is only one of ten VonRoll Type 101's still in existance today.

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[woodencoasterfan]

@mikethenascarfan Well the gondolas are locked to the cable by the grips once they leave the station. The cables themselves roll over the towers on what are called shives (I think). Those cables stay rolling over the towers due to the enormous tension force being applied by the counterweights at the tension station. With that being said, there's always going to be someone that doesn't have the common sense to realize they might injure themselves and/or others by doing the stupid things they do.

[woodencoasterfan]

@mikethenascarfan I did several times when I was there. I just filmed a onride video on one of few times I used the ride. Also, keep in mind those accidents were at different Six Flags parks and they were caused by riders doing stupid things like rocking their gondola from side to side

[twilightstar302]

On July 26, 1978, three people died when their gondola fell from the cable!!creeeepy

[woodencoasterfan]

@twilightstar302 I'm pretty shure that happened at Six Flags near St. Louis, MO. 

[IggyZadr]

They aren't getting rid of the skyway are they?

[woodencoasterfan]

@IggyZadr I haven't heard anything about that yet. Besides, since Six Flags is in bankruptcy reorganization, I think it would be foolish for them to spend all that money dismantling a ride that is still very popular with park guests. It would also eliminate their only means of transporting guests from one end of the park to the other.

[noomguod]

Nice sights - thank you.

[SouthernGirl096]

The 1978 accident my teacher "Stephen Ledbetter" was one of the security guards there and he told our class everything that happened. How the one girls face got ripped off and the guy laying in a pool of blood and the girl with the pole through her. He had actually helped the one with the face ripped off. I didn`t believe it till I googled it.

[mikethenascarfan]

@woodencoasterfan true, but still ythey should be able to withstand that

[mikethenascarfan]

@woodencoasterfan you could always walk!- i was ther elast week- now i see al the fatal accidents that happened there