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Disney figured transportation planners would take his monorail concept — a sleek, elevated, electric-powered train straddling a single beam — and replicate it inside real cities.
“He wanted to build a whole city with monorails and people-movers,” said David Koenig, author of several books on Disney’s legacy. “He was convinced everyone was going to build monorails all over the world.” Instead, California in the 1950s and ’60s built roads and freeways.
But in the last 30 years, Los Angeles awoke to the potential of hard-rail subways and light-rail trains as a way to unclog jammed freeways. Now the transit world is considering cheaper, less intrusive ways to move people, and that includes a modern version of The Magic Kingdom’s monorail concept.<<
From Disneyland to China, the monorail is riding a new high. But would it work in LA?
Connecting the San Fernando Valley to West LA and then to LAX would be the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s most ambitious project to date.
www.ocregister.com
Disney figured transportation planners would take his monorail concept — a sleek, elevated, electric-powered train straddling a single beam — and replicate it inside real cities.
“He wanted to build a whole city with monorails and people-movers,” said David Koenig, author of several books on Disney’s legacy. “He was convinced everyone was going to build monorails all over the world.” Instead, California in the 1950s and ’60s built roads and freeways.
But in the last 30 years, Los Angeles awoke to the potential of hard-rail subways and light-rail trains as a way to unclog jammed freeways. Now the transit world is considering cheaper, less intrusive ways to move people, and that includes a modern version of The Magic Kingdom’s monorail concept.<<
