Modern Vertical Lift Evacuations

[EpochEmu]

I was reading something about how hard it was for Ultra Twisters to evacuate if they got stuck on their vertical lift hill, which was a contributing factor as to why some got converted into 45 degree lifts. So I’m wondering- how do they evacuate modern vertical lifts? I found this video, but I can’t see anything going on.

Do they still have stairways between the drop and lift? I saw the Ultra Twisters had those, but they were understandably hard to get to from a stuck car. So how do they do evacuate nowadays?

 

[Matt N]

I think some vertical lifts, like The Smiler's, for example, have an anti-rollback mechanism that rolls the train back down to the ground. Here's a video of The Smiler's in action:

 

[costar]

I believe Rip Ride Rockit at USF was modified recently to almost drop the car backwards into some brakes, instead of lowering it slowly like Smiler. I think it was about getting the stranded train down and out-of-view as fast as possible to avoid negative press, just as much as being able to rescue faster.