Does the British Airways London Eye always rotate in the same direction?

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 03 Mar 2006 14:14 PST

Please take a look at the following and let me know if this suffices
as an answer to your question:

"The London eye is the huge wheel next to the River Thames near Big
Ben. The 443 ft.-high wheel cost 35 million pounds to build, provides
a 30-minute ride and is said to give 25-mile views in good weather.
There are 32 capsules and each one takes up to 25 people - a maximum
total of 800 passengers at any one time. The wheel can take 15,000
passengers a day.

The basic facts are these. The wheel turns anti-clockwise at the rate
of less than two miles an hour. This is slow enough to enable you to
enter the moving capsule comfortably. Thus it takes 15 minutes to
carry you to the top. From take-off to landing occupies 30 minutes."
http://www.uib.es/estudis/acces/secundaria/selectivitat/juny00/logse/angles.htm


Best regards,
Rainbow

The wheel rotates clockwise ot anticlockwise - depending wich side of
it you choose to stand.

Duh!

That is, counterclockwise looked at from the south, not from Big Ben
across the river.  If you inspect the photo of the boarding area on
this site, you will see that the ramp goes down from the west
(foreground), so it is apparent that boarding is planned with the
bottom of the wheel always moving away from the viewer of this photo 
(the one at the lower left with the red vertical piece).  Click to
enlarge and click again on the photo.

http://www.picture-newsletter.com/londoneye/

The entrance to the Eye is on the south side of it (see lower left photo.