A Colorado Springs zipline turns days of camp cleanup into hours
Public Works built a truck-winch zipline that moves trash bags and bulky debris out of hard-to-reach camps in two to three hours instead of a day or more. Crews have used it on 13 large camps.
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Colorado Springs Public Works built a custom zipline that runs off a truck winch, The Gazette reported. The line carries trash bags and bulky debris out of camps that crews cannot easily reach on foot or by truck.
A cleanup that used to take a day or more now takes two to three hours. The city has used the system on 13 large camps. Those figures describe the tool and where it has already been put to work, not a claim that every camp in the city has been cleared.
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Colorado Springs Public Works built a special zipline that runs from a truck winch. Crews use it to move bags of trash and big pieces of debris out of places that are hard to walk into. A cleanup that used to take a day or more can now take two or three hours. The city has used the line on 13 large camps. A zipline here is a cable that carries the load, so people do not have to haul every bag out by hand.
- Why would a cable be faster than carrying bags by hand?
- What kinds of places are hard for a truck to drive into?
- How is two or three hours different from a whole day of work?
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