Template:Did you know nominations/Roosevelt Island Tramway

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst talk 00:17, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Roosevelt Island Tramway

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Roosevelt Island Tramway

• ... that New York City's Roosevelt Island Tramway was deliberately positioned to prevent planes from colliding with it? Source: "Airborne Commuters Take a Disneyland Ride to Work". Popular Mechanics. Vol. 146. July 1976. pp. 52–53, 112, 114 – via Internet Archive.
  • ALT1: ... that New York City's Roosevelt Island Tramway was placed next to a bridge to prevent planes from colliding with it? Source: "Airborne Commuters Take a Disneyland Ride to Work". Popular Mechanics. Vol. 146. July 1976. pp. 52–53, 112, 114 – via Internet Archive.
  • ALT2: ... that the Roosevelt Island Tramway, built as a temporary mode of transit, remains open after four decades? Source: Hopper, Tristin (March 9, 2012). "Transit planners look to gondolas to put an end to urban gridlock". National Post.
  • ALT3: ... that though the Roosevelt Island Tramway was built as a temporary mode of transit, 2,000 people signed a petition in 1989 to keep it open? Source: Hopper, Tristin (March 9, 2012). "Transit planners look to gondolas to put an end to urban gridlock". National Post; Foran, Katherine (November 10, 1989). "Tramway Fans in Wait-and-See". Newsday. pp. 19, 46.
  • ALT4: ... that one writer compared New York City's Roosevelt Island Tramway to a Disneyland attraction? Source: Goldberger, Paul (1979). The City Observed, New York: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan. The Visible city. Random House. p. 337.
  • ALT5: ... that one writer compared riding the Roosevelt Island Tramway to paying "a subway token in exchange for a great island getaway vacation"? Source: Schneider, Steve (January 7, 1989). "Roosevelt Island". Newsday. p. 21.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KGTV (Iowa)

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 18:39, 15 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Roosevelt Island Tramway; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Prefer ALT1 as it is interesting, confirmed and in the article - I found it cited on p.114 of the reference. That hook is found in the first part of the Route and stations section. Earwig does not alert to any issues. The article was promoted to GA by EG and nominated within the allotted time so it qualifies. It is neutral and cited/references and the QPQ is done. The image is clear, free, renders well at this size and it is interesting. Bruxton (talk) 22:06, 16 January 2024 (UTC)