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Old Posted Mar 11, 2021, 8:31 PM
mrnyc mrnyc is offline
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Originally Posted by Cirrus View Post
95% of the time, monorails are the wrong technology for a transit corridor. 95% of the time, monorail backers are armchair planners with no real idea what they're talking about.

But 5% of the time monorails are legitimately correct, and even a broken clock is right twice a day. Automatically trotting out the Simpsons every time a monorail is mentioned is every bit as much an armchair-no-real-idea move as assuming monorails are right without thinking critically.

Monorails are nothing but a tool. Not magically good, not magically bad. Use them when they're the right tool.

they're the right tool at the airport, world's fair and amusement parks. and in shelbyville. and people movers are their red headed step sisters.
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