Alternative Aerial Tramway Transport System for Roosevelt and Governors Island?

The NY Times reports that:

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s philanthropic foundation is considering using Governors Island to house a public health institute where scholars from around the world could come to study and exchange ideas.

“It’s tranquil, you have these beautiful old buildings,” the mayor said this morning on his weekly radio appearance on WABC-AM.

The federal government sold the 172-acre island to the state and city for a nominal fee in 2002. But what should go there has long been a matter of debate. Thoughts have included a casino and an extension of the City University of New York campus.

With the RIOC Board of Directors meeting set to decide the future course of the Roosevelt Island Tram scheduled for this Thursday, I thought it an opportune moment to revisit Santiago Calatrava's proposed tramway transit system for Governor's Island. According to Gothamist, transportation to and from Governor's Island could be accomplished by a Roosevelt Island Tram like gondola system at a cost of $125 million.

Leave it to Santiago Calatrava, the golden boy of rebuild NYC design at the moment for his beautiful Port Authority transit hub planned for Ground Zero, to design a gorgeous tramway between lower Manhattan and Governor's Island. (The tramway isn't a certainty, but it's a great, flashy "This is what our future could be" symbol.) The city and state announced that they are looking for "visionary ideas for the redevelopment of Governor's Island"...
This tramway-gondola system would cost $125 million and the three stations would be in Battery Park, at Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, and at Governor's Island.

More on the Gondola plan for Governor's Island here and critical opinion here.

How about the Coaster below as a temporary substitute if the Roosevelt Island Tram is out of service for an extended period of time, as a transit option for getting to Governors Island or as the Curbed Hudson Yards Roller Coaster? Wheeee!


You Tube video of the Dopplemayr Mountain Glider is here. Dopplemayr is also the manufacturer of the Roosevelt Island Tram.
Governors Island image is from NY Times.