Roosevelt Island Tram

The Roosevelt Island Tramway is a Téléphérique of the town of New York. It connects Manhattan to Roosevelt Island, overhanging the East River parallel to Queensboro Bridge.

Built in 1976 by the Swiss company Von Roll, it is the only urban cable car in North America. It acted in the beginning of a provisional solution of transport for Roosevelt Island, but the overhead tramway remained despite everything with the opening in 1989 of the line ''' F ''' of the subway serving the island.

Since 2003, the tram is incorporated in the '' New York City transit system '', making valid the MetroCard. Currently, the price of the simple race is identical to the subway, that is to say 2 US$.

Technical data

  • 26 million passengers travelled since the opening
  • Each cabin can transport 125 people
  • Environ 115 A/R daily, that is to say a rotation all the fifteen minutes
  • Length: 945 meters
  • Run time: 4 ½ minutes
  • Maximum speed: 28 km/h.
  • Culminating point: 76 meters
  • Strong point: energy saving

Breakdowns

The system of traction fell first once broken down the September 2nd 2005, trapping more than 80 passengers lasting 90 minutes.

But the April 18th 2006, is less than eight month after this first incident, another engine trouble immobilized during several hours the cabins of the cable car, one with the top of the river and the other above Manhattan. 69 people were forced to take their dignified suffering between 17:22 and 22:55, is during 5 hours and 23 minutes… The exploitation took again on September 1st.

cinema

The Roosevelt Island Tramway was with the honor in several films:

Moreover, it was between 1990 and 2002 an attraction of the Amusement park Universal Studios, where the visitors, sitted in a cabin of the cable car, were confronted with the alarming King Kong.

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