AFSCME 3357-HOF'S BLOG

Monorail! Monorail! A Transportation Alternative

My favorite Simpsons episode of all times is the early Monorail episode. It includes my favorite line from Homer. "Donuts, is there anything they can't do?" That episode, by the way, was written by Conan O'Brien. He also wrote one of my favorite Saturday Night Live sketches, Mr. Short Term Memory, with Tom Hanks. Anyway, I digress. I'm posting this link to monorails.org. Are monorails practical transportation? Were they ever. This is basically a "pro" site.


Monorail Society homepage

Also check out . Alweg is the German company that built the monorail system in Seattle for the World's Fair in 1961. Alweg made an unsolicited offer to build a monorail system for Los Angeles for $105 million, that they would finance. A great deal even at that time. Supposedly Standard Oil put the kabosh on it. (Shades of Who Framed Roger Rabbit!)