<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I agree. Monorail has been discussed here many times and appears to be a more cost effective solution for TCO per mile. Plus I've stood under the monorail at Disney as it blasts by and the damn thing is QUIET! I've stood under a MARTA line and the "L" train in Chicago and they are quite the opposite in terms of noise pollution. Noisy makes for unhappy neighbors = lower property values = bad idea.</blockquote>
<div><br>I'm not current enough on monorail to argue its relative merits, but a longstanding joke told by transportation engineering professionals sums up its actual prospects for adoption:<br><br>"Monorail is the transportation of the future -- and it always will be".<br>
<br>Larry <br></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"I see design standards that don't tell you how to come up with a good design (only how to write it down), employee evaluation standards that don't help you build meaningful long-term relationships with staff, testing standards that don't tell you how to invent a test that is worth running."<br>
<br> Tom DeMarco<br> Slack<br>