Choosing the road less travelled

FROM his home on Roosevelt Island, Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram takes a short ride on the local red bus to the aerial tramway station for a five-minute cable car ride across the East River to Manhattan.

“It’s a nice way to begin the day, looking down on the world. I don’t understand why they call this cable car a tram but everyone knows it as the one Spiderman saved from the Green Goblin,” he tells StarBizWeek in his usual soft-spoken style during a recent trip home to Kuala Lumpur.