WASHINGTON—Offering vocal criticism of the aging transit network and its continued failure to meet their transportation needs, frustrated citizens nationwide are calling upon federal officials this week to at long last update the country’s obsolete zip-line infrastructure.
Advocates for reform, whose demands have grown louder in recent years, have assailed America’s decades-old system of ladders, poles, platforms, and galvanized steel rope as inadequate, arguing that the current infrastructure provides limited and inconvenient options for low-altitude carabiner-and-cable-based travel across the United States.
According to several recent surveys, the public’s frustration stems largely from the aerial transit system’s failure to accommodate the growing number of harnessed and strapped-in travelers. Additionally, transportation experts cite the network’s degrading cable clamps, frequent maintenance-related delays, and multipage liability waivers as further reasons why the nation’s zip-line network must be updated.
“Every morning when I clip myself to the cable before work, I know I’m going to be standing up there on the platform forever just waiting for my turn,” said Oakland, CA resident Matthew Marshall, adding that, even after he leaps off, he too often finds himself stuck dangling in place when his zip-line sags.
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