Updated: CN Tower Ice: Your Solutions

The dangers of ice falling off the CN Tower are very real. But CityNews viewers are both resourceful and always keep a sense of humour in any crisis.

Which explains some of your solutions to the problems on Front St.

Here are just a few suggestions our viewers sent in advising how they’d fix this perilous problem.


“Send a group of Sea King helicopters retro-fitted with hundreds of hair dryers up there. Have them simply aim the banks of hair dryers at the ice and watch the problem disappear!”

Jeff Sanislo


“After storms, the corporation sends workers out to look at the damage (last year, pieces of the white fabric covering the top of the tower were blown loose).   Equip them with golf cleats or the like and as they rappel down the side of the tower, swinging into it, the cleats break off the ice into small chunks …

“If it doesn’t work, sniper rifles from condos would also dislodge it.”

Bob Dunkin


“Have they considered using laser or magnification of light to targeted problem areas? You know like a magnifying glass reflecting the sun or using mirrors to deflect halogen or high powered lights?”

Anne-Marie Hauzer


“Of course, this is tongue firmly in cheek, but here goes.

“Buy a used Cessna airplane. Load it with some remote control devices … Shut down the downtown core for 15 minutes while the plane is flying from  the Island Airport to the CN Tower … Then fly it into the highest strong part of the structure.

“The resulting shock should make the whole tower shake, which will make all the ice fall down.

“There you go. No charge.”

Spartan 117


“My suggestion is to spray salt on the wall of the Tower.”
 
Carlos Mawyin


“There is no real solution other than trying to heat the tower from within, such as send heat up the core during ice storms to prevent this.
 
“Oh by the way, why not have David Miller get out of work early and drive his own car downtown now to see what would really happen if they took down the Gardiner?”
 
Richard Price in Ajax


“Contact the GTAA [Greater Toronto Airports Authority], tell them to get some choppers and shoot some de-icing liquid at the ice. Maybe not today with the wind but when it settles.”

Antonio De Crisci


“Instead of having the elevator inside the column, keep the elevator outside which can be used as a whipper as well in the winter time.”

Vinodh “Vino” Venkatraman


Brenda Brown


“All it needs is the Tower’s window cleaning contractor, with a baseball bat. Starting from the top of course.”

Ibrahim


“Shoot at the ice with police rubber bullets. Police shoot criminals with them. Why not try that?”

“Mad” Mark


  “Simply use a fire truck with long ladder and aim to the icy tower.”

  John Bautista


“My idea is if we install some special heating system which will melt the ice during this kind of  situation.”

Zakir Hossain


“One possible solution may be to install heat sensors cables to be used when temperatures plunge. Same as those used on residential roofs, to stop ice from forming.”

Jim        


  

“By the way, I’ve never even heard of ‘sarcasm'”.

Scott Rogers

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