Super Triple Redundant!

If last week’s Roosevelt Island Tram Stall made you a little less excited about the prospect of a tram to Governor’s Island, rest assured that the Calatrava-designed tram’s power supply system will be “triple redundant”:

Officials at the Governors Island Preservation & Education Corp., a group controlled by Bloomberg and Pataki, said tram technology has advanced greatly in the 30 years since the now-busted Roosevelt Island system was built.

“We are confident that anything built with those advances would operate with little or no problem,” Yvette DeBow, a spokeswoman for the corporation, told the Daily News.

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If the Governors Island tram gets green-lighted, officials said they will take into account the power outage that brought the Roosevelt Island tram to an abrupt halt Tuesday night, trapping nearly 70 people, some for almost 11 hours, high above the East River.

“We’re going to end up probably with [a] triple redundant backup [power system], given what we just saw, whereas we might have only planned for double redundant,” said Peter Fleischer, senior vice president for the Governors Island Preservation & Education Corp.