Preliminary plans to build an aerial tram amusement ride in Ocean City have gone back to the drawing board as the designer works to find a less controversial site for the ride.
Trey Winstead of Baltimore proposed to build an aerial tram, called Skyline Ocean City, over the Boardwalk. According to information he sent to Ocean City officials a few weeks ago, he envisioned a tram that would carry passengers from the inlet parking lot to the north end of the Boardwalk at 27th Street and back that would run 50-85 feet above the boards.
Winstead pulled his presentation from the agenda of the June 20 City Council meeting because he said the plans were still in the preliminary stage and were not ready to be made public information. But news outlets caught word of the aerial tram proposal and the news quickly spread throughout the area.
On Monday, Winstead said the publicity of the ride generated some negative comments about the proposed location over the Boardwalk, with people raising concerns that the structure would block the view of the beach and ocean. He said he is making changes to the plan in response, including searching for a different location in the resort, but he would not divulge where that might be.
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