The North Ridge Express (NRX) was down all day today, the Saturday of a holiday weekend.

It seems to me that the NRX is the leading candidate for least reliable lift in the galaxy. Each and every lift has problems at one time or another, but the NRX seems to have more problems at much greater frequency than all the other lifts at Sugarbush combined. So far, it seems that last year's Doppelmayr refurbishment of the lift hasn't improved things.

Does anyone know why the NRX is so fragile? Is there a design problem? Is it some sort of "lemon" model whose sisters all suffer from the same high rate of breakage? Is it potentially dangerous? What is the deal with that thing?