You Tube Video of Snowy Roosevelt Island Tram Ride
Above video is a view of the Roosevelt Island Tram not seen in the past – from the rooftop of the new Riverwalk Rental building at 405 Main Street and in the snow. Pretty cool!It looks like some other media outlets are finally picking up the story of the Roosevelt Island Tram shutdown.In addition to the WPIX video above, both NewYorkology and Gothamist have mentioned the soon to be out of service Roosevelt Island Tram. According to NewYorkology:
Roosevelt Island Tram famous for its Spider-Man movie cameo as well as stranding real-life riders over the East River in 2006 is on schedule to shut down March 1 through Aug. 31 for a major modernization project.
This past weekend, the Roosevelt Islander blog reported the oft-delayed project is almost ready to begin. The tram is on schedule for March 1 shutdown, Roosevelt Island Operating Corporaton President Steve Shane states in a report to island residents reprinted on the blog
Image From Vidiot via Gothamist
Nothing yet from the major print papers, NY Times, Daily News or NY Post.At yesterday’s RIOC Operations Committee Meeting and the RIRA Town Hall Meeting we learned that:On a non- tram outage transportation issue, RIOC and RIRA both agreed to provide information and apply to be a test community for Google’s new high speed broadband ISP service mentioned in this earlier post.