adma
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Monorail news just keeps getting better. Deagu is South Korea's 4th largest city with 2.5 million and has two Metro line one 27km and the other 23km . The new Line 3 is a Monorail using Hitachi vehicles and is the first major Monorail in S.K. It will be totally driver less and be 24km with 30 stations. Civil enginering has finished and construction has started! It is to completed by 2014
Have you been to Delhi or Mumbai? I've seen Indian people during a three-year drought building a bridge off of scaffolding they'd set-up in the dry river bed. It started raining that week. During an earthquake, all 10 apartment buildings (8-20 stories) designed by an architect collapsed. He had no structural qualifications. There is lots of money in India if you know to grease the right wheels. Overall, there background economic pattern is completely different from Canada. That means their decisions cannot just be plunked into Toronto and magically fit our needs.At one point LA has the US second largest trams system after Detroit until GM got a hold of it.
These large cities of Delhi, Mumbai, are three times the size of Toronto and growing at light speed. They have REAL transportation problems and would think Toronto as being nirvana. The are monsterous places with extremely high densities, narrow roads, and very limited funds. They had to make sure that when choosing technologies for their dev eloping mass transit systems that they choose the right one and are shifting to monorail. It is affordable, has a small foot print, can be built quickly and have subway capacity, and have small curve radiases to accomadate their thin windy roads so they choose Monorail.
These are cities that have huge problems and are making the best use of their limited funds. This is not something Toronto should be avoiding but rather emulating.
Very true but it was the civil engineering that was completed but real construction didn't start till early this year.
Sao Paulo has put the first 23km of urban Monorail out to tenure which will eventually be 100km. I didn't realize however that the interior city of Manaus is also planning a urban mass/rapid Monorail system.
Damn these tonka toys! Thank god Toronto is too "world class" to build with this technology. For Toronto it's only subway or nothing for it's mass/rapid transit....................unfortunately it only uses the latter part of the equation.
adma....................in case you missed it this is a MONORAIL thread hence all the talk about MONORAILS. So if you don't want to discuss MONORAILS maybe you should be the one to sram.
Why not have a Sydney version of monorail that goes around in a circle to stop at points of interest.