{"id":3591,"date":"2008-07-10T10:28:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2008-07-10T10:28:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:28:49","slug":"the_problem_with_sky_trams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/the_problem_with_sky_trams.html","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Sky Trams . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If they get stuck &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/hanging_harrowi.html\">they do<\/a> &#8212; there&#8217;s nowhere to go but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07102008\/news\/regionalnews\/hire_wire_ordeal_above_bronx_zoo_119267.htm\">down<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dozens of people on the Bronx Zoo&#8217;s Skyfari ride were stranded more than 100 feet in the air for about five hours last night when the tram broke down. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My son was really, really frightened,&#8221; said Olga Perez, of New City, who was on the ride. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;Everything&#8217;s going to be OK.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of my nephews got scared. He was screaming, &#8216;I can&#8217;t take this anymore!&#8217; &#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The nephews and son were in another car, and Perez had to talk to them by cellphone. <\/p>\n<p>The cars, which glide along cables 112 feet in the air, ground to a halt at 5:27 p.m., with 30 adults and seven children on board, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The last passengers got off at 10:20 p.m. There were no injuries, but a pregnant woman was taken to Jacobi Hospital for observation.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If they get stuck &#8212; and they do &#8212; there&#8217;s nowhere to go but down: Dozens of people on the Bronx Zoo&#8217;s Skyfari ride were stranded more than 100 feet in the air for about five hours last night when the tram broke down. &#8220;My son was really, really frightened,&#8221; said Olga Perez, of New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}