Monorail

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orangevening
Nicollet Mall
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Re: Why not Monorail? and transit / Elephant accidents.

Postby orangevening » August 4th, 2013, 3:57 am

and now they have a lrt system they are continually adding to, to go along with their modern streetcar in tacoma, modern streetcar at south lake union, and their historic streetcar. they are also adding to those systems currently. they had plans for a massive expansion of the monorail system not that long ago, and after canning the idea, they are now full speed ahead with lrt - and passing the twin cities by at warp speed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Monorail_Project


Sorry to nitpick, but the historic streetcar in Seattle has been "indefinitely" out since 2006. The are, however, building a First Street streetcar currently. Of course King county voters voted to tax themselves for ST2, which funded the LRT expansion. There are still talks about building a West Seattle to Ballard monorail, because the new Alaskan Way Tunnel is making that rail connection tough.

Back to the subject, if your going to do Monorail why not do PRT?

UptownSport
Rice Park
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Re: Why not Monorail? and transit / Elephant accidents.

Postby UptownSport » August 4th, 2013, 8:42 am

If you're talking articulated busses, why not PRT?
Question makes exactly as much sense
I shoul've titled thread 'elevated rail', as monorail is just a subset.

Every line discussed, planned or built interferes (or can't be built) because of a ground obstacle;
Traffic
Bike lanes
Pedestrians
Buildings

Elevating (or 'burying') allows any length, any frequency without taking away from some other form of transport.

Total grade seperation also removes need for operator- making operation cheaper.

Any vehicle can be elevated (see Hiawatha at 62) your choice of vehicle weight determines how much is overhead.


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