Comments on: Catching Monorail Mania

By: Jerry Roane

Jerry Roane — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:30:58 +0000

Advanced transportation on a personal scale takes the monorail for sage high speed and the street to get you home. Dual mode cars could be the next evolution in the monorail. The monorail itself being fabricated by extrusion rather than cast and erected puts up guideway at $170,000 per mile at 3 mph. Walt Disney was even smarter than he often gets credit for.

By: ADalton

ADalton — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:09:57 +0000

You know there’s this episode of The Simpsons where Springfield gets a monorail but it turns out that it is from 1964 and is in bad condition. Anyway, I think this says something about how people today tend to think of monorails:They are yesterday’s vision of today.

By: Susie K

Susie K — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:18:59 +0000

Ever see the hilarious monorail in “You Only Live Twice”, the old Bond movie? There’s something inherently dated and naive about monorails, despite Dubai’s embrace of the concept. Come to think of it, perhaps the dated aspect jives well with that country’s place in the modernity continuum.