Roosevelt Island Temporary Tram Outage Yesterday - Did Spiderman Saves The Roosevelt Island Tram From Green Goblin?

Image From Roosevelt Island 360

There was a temporary outage yesterday on the Roosevelt Island Tram.

What happened? You're not going to believe it. According to this You Tube Video, a normal trip on the Roosevelt Island Tram was interrupted when suddenly it was attacked by the Green Goblin. Then, out of nowhere Spider Man came to the rescue of Tram passengers dangling over the East River. (The action starts just after the 2 Minute mark of video.)

You Tube Video of Spiderman Saving Roosevelt Island Tram

Well, not really. This is what did happen.
According to the 12/10-11 Roosevelt Island Public Safety Report:

Tram Temporary Outage - Tram employee called PSD to report that the tram was out of service. Condition was corrected and tram resumed service.

Roosevelt Island Public Safety Director Keith Guerra provides some additional details:

Yes, the Tram was out of service for approximately 45 minutes. The Control Panel indicated a problem with the Hydraulic System, while the Tram was in the Station. Our Tram Engineers immediately went into "Trouble-shoot" mode and rectified the problem. There were no injuries to any passengers.

The temporary tram outage did cause some additional problems for some disabled residents according to first comment from this post:

This morning's brief Tram outage left a few disabled people challenged when they got to the subway and got out at 63rd St and discovered no elevator service.

I like the Spiderman story better.

Apparently, there was quite a controversy over the Spiderman movie shoot on Roosevelt Island. According to the May 5 2001 Main Street WIRE:

Roosevelt Island ended last week with a transportation crisis brewing. As of late Friday night, RIOC staff members were set to sign over the Tramway to Columbia Pictures most of Tuesday through Saturday or Sunday.

By Monday night, as residents gathered for a Town Meeting hastily called by Residents Association (RIRA) President Matthew Katz, parents concerned over transportation of their children were ready to go on the attack with questions and criticisms of everything about the plan, which would have taken the cable car out of service from noon on each day....

There's alot more. Read the whole article as well as editorial and cartoon.

There always seems to a some sort of transportation problem here on Roosevelt Island.