Originally Posted By Socrates I don't know if this helps, but I vaguely remember in the 1980s King's Island theme park had a "Wild Animal Habitat" attraction with exotic African animals, and the ride vehicle was a monorail whose beam sat directly on the ground. So that's another approach. Socrates "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Originally Posted By 2001DLFan <<Hans Reinhardt: "You don't think a newer "real" monorail would work?" After riding Las Vegas' new monorail I think the system is too costly with too little return. The thing is just so sluggish and bypasses some of the most important landmarks on the strip. A rapid bus or LTR system would be better for Anaheim in my opinion.>> Actually, a monorail would be best suited as a limited express system over a longer route that has hubs along the route for transfers to other local transportation systems. Vegas isn’t the ideal since the strip is elbow-to-elbow casinos which all can’t have access, and those stations they do have require a lot of walking just to get to. Having an inter-city Monorail system that has stations at major locations within numerous cities could be successful. The biggest issue with light rail is that it is more of a nuisance at grade, causing more traffic issues, especially in an area where traffic is already problematic. If it were built above grade, the costs would be comparable to a monorail. Below grade would probably cost a lot more.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer >>The biggest issue with light rail is that it is more of a nuisance at grade, causing more traffic issues, especially in an area where traffic is already problematic. If it were built above grade, the costs would be comparable to a monorail. Below grade would probably cost a lot more.<< NO, I posted earlier the cost of the Las Vegas Monorail, which was about $167 million a mile, as compared to the LA Metro LTR lines, out of which, the majority goes underground. That was just over $50 million a mile, or about 1/3'rd of the cost.
Originally Posted By patrickegan Wonder how they did that when Sacramento is talking 60 million +/mile and it's on grade. The problems listed by 2001 make the point against on street mass transit.
