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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2724011, member: 27"]
The thing I am dying to know is whether the new roof can be installed using the existing columns to support it, or if additional columns will be required to carry all the extra weight?

I believe earlier articles have said the existing columns were designed to support the existing roof, which is relatively light (2 layers of teflon covered kevlar I think, along with some steel cables), and that they could not support a fixed roof option.  Even a relatively light one like the one it appears we are going to install.  The new roof has to be substantially heavier than the existing one with all that steel.

Also, will they build the roller coaster like supporting structure with the existing roof in place, then during the summer, rip the old roof out and install the new one?  Ripping out the old one, installing the new one and all the supporting steel, then installing the sound system, the scoreboard, the new lighting system all during one summer seems incredibly ambitious and probably impossible.

Looking closely at the picture supplied, I do not see any indication of additional support columns.  Is this just a shoddy job photoshopping or can the existing columns really handle the new roof?

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