I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook. And, by gum, it put them on the map
Monorail fever hits Boston.
"They are nothing more than "engineering boondoggles" in the mind of Fred Moore, president of the Association for Public Transportation in Boston, an advocacy organization for car-free transportation. He said monorails cannot travel faster than 35 miles per hour, do not contend well with snow and ice, and are difficult and costly to repair. "Even the deep pockets of Disney does not build them any more because of the cost," Moore said. "People get all caught up in the futuristic, but the reality is that there's nothing a monorail can do that a light rail can't.""
Why can't engineers come up with something cool and practical?
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rj3 | 10:39 AM |
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Cause what's cool to us Engineers is considered blah and drab to other people. Consider that I just came up with an ultra-cool way to provide stormwater treatment for roadways within the roadway section that will be used on upcoming roadway projects. I'm almost inordinately proud of it, but everyone else would just say 'uhhh, yeah, I guess that's good, uhhh'.
