As long as I wasn't in danger of a cable break, I would rather just wait until they got power back. Just drop me a diet coke and a paperback.
According to local news reports, they tried to restart the power twice, and it worked for a little bit and failed again.
The NYPD has practiced rescuing people using this basket system before. The basket goes above the tram, and people in the tram climb a ladder to the rescue basket (and I think are attached to a safety rope while climbing out). There's little chance of passengers falling into the river.
They keep on talking about the "dangerous lack of food and water" as if starvation and thirst are even remote possibilities. A nice book and Diet Coke would be perfect companions for this very minor inconvenience.
They're chattering about how one of the trams was "lucky" to have a airline flight attendant aboard to maintain calm. You can't make this stuff up!
~ Blue Jays ~