The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial tramway in New York City that spans the East River and connects Roosevelt Island to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The tramway is the first commuter aerial tramway in North America, having opened in 1976. Since then, over 26 million passengers have ridden the tram.[1]
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The Roosevelt Island Tramway is featured in Heavy Metal.
It was introduce in 100 years after people after the segment of upriver from the Brooklyn Bridge. Holding up the Roosevelt Tramway is a pair of 2inch diameter wire ropes and the weak point is the spot where the cable cross over the steel support towers. Rene B. Testa stated that the cable is bent back and forth as the tram across it causing fatigue loading in the cables and uses up the life of it. The cables were shifted roughly 100 feet every five years to keep any one point from being in contact with the towers for too long.
It then reveals its fate when 100 years after people haven't let the tram to moved along the cable, but was continually buffeted by the wind causing stress on the wires near the towers. This cause the wires to snap and the tram car plunges 250 feet into the East River.
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