Roosevelt Island Tram Passengers Again Stuck Briefly For 5 Minutes Over Second Avenue Last Night - How's Your Roosevelt Island Commute

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Another brief temporary Roosevelt Island Tram outage yesterday with passengers briefly stuck over Second Avenue. Roosevelt Island 360 reports on problems coming home last night on the Roosevelt Island Tram. At 8:48 PM:

We were stuck over Second Ave for tops five minutes then returned into Manhattan platform. David had to open doors manually and we all got out onto platform. Now waiting for North Cabin, not sure, to head over from Island. Platform jam packed.  More later.

At 8:55 PM:

Everyone is looking to see if the North cabin is heading over but as we have not heard the normal bell ringing that proceeds a cabin's liftoff I expect nothing is yet airborne. Should be interesting. Some of the passengers don't feel like waiting in the rain so they have headed to the F train at Lex/63rd. Most have stayed. Only been a few minutes so far.

No announcements of anything yet.

At 8:57 PM:

David just announced closed for next 20 to 30 minutes. Problem on RI side now getting either cabin moving. Heading to subway now. Most people leaving.

At 9:17 PM:

Just exited subway with many who were on same tram. Good thing we have these options. Not to bad as F close by on 63rd. And F came quickly.

At 9:09 PM the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) issued the following advisory:

Please be advised that both tram cabins are temporarily out of service. A follow-up advisory will be sent once service has resumed

Sincerely,

Roosevelt Island Operating Corp Advisories Group

At 9:45 PM:

Please be advised that both tram cabins are back in service.

Sincerely,

Roosevelt Island Operating Corp Advisories Group