What Do You Do With a Broken Tourist Attraction?

Once upon a time the city of Melbourne made a great, big ferris wheel. They called this wheel the Southern Star. After a few minor delays, the wheel was opened for tourist in December of 2008 (at a cost of about 100 million Aussie buckaroos).

And in January of 2009, it was shut down.

It was initially thought that a heatwave had cause structural damage but now it is said that there were flaws in the design and there were cracks in the steel. I'm no engineer so I'll never know.

Anyway, it is being rebuilt and maybe it will be completed this year.


Maybe.


Will I ever go on it? I don't know. I hear it costs an arm and a leg. It better be an amazing view. I know you get a close up of Costco.