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Yes. They couldn't afford the capital cost of the necessary safety upgrades required, and to renew the then 20-year old structure and vehicles.Did the scrapping of the last monorail have anything to do with the crash?
Yes. They couldn't afford the capital cost of the necessary safety upgrades required, and to renew the then 20-year old structure and vehicles.Did the scrapping of the last monorail have anything to do with the crash?
Did the scrapping of the last monorail have anything to do with the crash?
Did the train create a vapour cone as it broke the sound barrier?...speaking of maglev, I'm at the Yamanashi maglev test centre right now, and just saw a train blow by at 504 km/h!
So update the arcticle? That's how a wiki works.The pertinent Wikipedia articles fail to mention this proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maglev_train_proposals and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev
Did the scrapping of the last monorail have anything to do with the crash?
Thanks for the little bit of history, CodeMonkey!
If the Zoo accepts a new (maglev) "monorail", better make sure to get a good lawyer. It would be a fun system to ride, but what if it goes out of business like the old one did? Lockheed Martin has lots of money, so hopefully this is good, but likewise, you don't want to be hamstrung by super-expensive maintenance of a highly experimental system that can't economically stand on its own legs. Perhaps an option to exercise a free system removal after the experiment? In case the system is so problematic and the Zoo didn't like the system for whatever reason.
I guess this fits in this thread!
Toronto Zoo might get s new Monorail
Project Documents:
Official Proposal - Magnovate
Zoo Staff Report on Proposal
The City and Zoo will review the proposal on Thursday and report back in the summer.
TL;DR: A consortium of system partners (Stantec, Lockheed Martin, PCL and Magna) have offered to build a demonstration maglev line on top of the existing Bendix-Dashveyor AGT ("monorail") guideway at the Zoo. They would pay for it entirely so the zoo gets a free train. Stantec has already been on site to evaluate the guideway and have said its in excellent condition.
To me, this is a no brainer, even though it doesn't entirely align with the zoo's current master plan, which is ramping down operations in the Canadian Domain section of the park.