Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Perhaps Portland should consider the New York City experience with aerial trams?
As reported in this story in the New York Times: Power Failures Leave Tram Passengers Hanging for Hours.
A four-minute trip on the Roosevelt Island Tramway turned into a harrowing ordeal that lasted hours last night as a series of power failures left more than 70 passengers suspended hundreds of feet in the air.
Around 9:30 p.m., after officials had tried and failed to restore power, and with options running out, emergency workers scrambled to prepare for a daring midair rescue. The ordeal began shortly before 5 p.m. when the power gave out, leaving two tram cars motionless on cables that rise as high as 250 feet above the East River between the East Side of Manhattan and Roosevelt Island.
A four-minute trip on the Roosevelt Island Tramway turned into a harrowing ordeal that lasted hours last night as a series of power failures left more than 70 passengers suspended hundreds of feet in the air.
Around 9:30 p.m., after officials had tried and failed to restore power, and with options running out, emergency workers scrambled to prepare for a daring midair rescue. The ordeal began shortly before 5 p.m. when the power gave out, leaving two tram cars motionless on cables that rise as high as 250 feet above the East River between the East Side of Manhattan and Roosevelt Island.
Comments:
Good news.
The trams will come back and there is the subway as an alternative. I agree that Portland should not build trams but subways and cut down on highway construction and repairs.
What happend on the trams was unfortunate but the slaughter on todays roads is worse.
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The trams will come back and there is the subway as an alternative. I agree that Portland should not build trams but subways and cut down on highway construction and repairs.
What happend on the trams was unfortunate but the slaughter on todays roads is worse.
