Recently in Orlando, I came back to the city wondering to myself why we wouldn't build a monorail type system instead of ground-based LRT. Monorail was unbelievably quiet and saved space through elevation.
At the sustainability conference at Augsburg on Saturday, I had a chance to speak with a Skyweb Express (http://www.skywebexpress.com/) rep. I asked him the question about elevation and he responded 'don't get me started'. I've also read and heard that the costs are significantly lower, for example: http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=communique&newsid=4147 . The Skyweb rep stated that the city could be covered in a web of Skyweb for less than the cost of the Hiwawatha Line alone. Regards, Jason Stone Nokomis --- Ray of Minneapolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I swear, the trolly systems we had back in the day > were way better then Lightrail will ever be. Thats > another thing. For all the money they spent on > getting-stuck-in-the-ice-LRT, we could have had some > kinda hydrogen/electric monorail. > What ever code book the regional planners are using > lacks vision and intellegent innovation. Well, to be > continued as allways.... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
