Cielo blu visualizza i veicoli in movimento est anteriore sessantesimo Street 2° Avenue Roosevelt Island antenna stazione tranviaria, Manhattan, New York
4256 x 2831 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
28 ottobre 2010
Ubicazione:
Manhattan entrance Queensboro Bridge Aerial Tramway, East 60th Street 2nd Avenue, New York City, USA
Altre informazioni:
The Queensboro Bridge is a double cantilever bridge spanning the East River from Manhattan to Queens via Roosevelt Island. It was competed in 1909, at a cost of $18 million and 50 lives. It has 10 lanes (4 upper and 6 lower). The Manhattan-Roosevelt cantilever span over the West Channel of the East River, is 360 m (1, 182 feet) long. An aerial tramway, opened in 1976 and modernised in 2010, runs along the north side of the bridge. Two cabins, connecting Roosevelt and Manhattan Islands, run at 15 minute intervals (continuously at rush hour periods) between 6.00 am and 2.30 am (3.30 am at weekends). Each cabin, with benches at either end, but no seats, has the capacity to carry 110 people at an average speed of 17.9 mph (28.8 km/h). They climb 76m (250 feet) above the East River and travel 940m (3100 feet) in 3 minutes. Here we see the tramway's Manhattan entrance at East 60th Street (foreground) and 2nd Avenue.
