[ale] [OT]atlanta beltway need this!!!

[tom]

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, Warren Myers wrote:

> fwiw - Singpore has a monorail along with a cable car and bridge to connect
> the "mainland" to the resort island of Sentosa.. it's *very* smooth to ride
> :)
>

Up to four now. Thank you for the update.

Do you happen to know the status of the monorail in Reno (?)? Guess its 
time for me to do a little web searching.

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:36 PM, tom <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> As for monorail, off the top of my head I am aware of only about three
>> monorail systems in non-amusement park use worldwide. I think that there
>> is one inside a German city that is running at about 60 years of age now,
>> and remains viable. I get the impression that they are most viable inside
>> an established city, but I could well be very wrong.
>>
>> Light rail (dedicated trackage for street car style cars) here is
>> Charlotte seems to be working out well in its first 14 mile developement.
>> While I recognize the problem of labor bottlenecks, I'm also extremely
>> tired of five lanes of parking. It's like all the drivers go on strike at
>> the same time...
>>
>>
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