I remember seeing somewhere that one of our former mayors during the 1970's had supported a SCM expansion to the airport. Anyone know details? Ugh, it's one of...
For the past few months, I've been watching a steady stream of stories about financial distress at WaMu, which was one of the principal foes of the monorail....
I was split about them. WaMu was/is a huge long-time local fixture in Seattle, as we all probably know in Seattle's history. Then of course, we liked monorail...
Excerpt: ITHACA, New York (AP) -- The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion ...
Hmmm, my memory must be getting rusty. I don't remember that "we voted to fund and build a demonstration PRT system back in 1996, in the...Sound Move vote..."...
If Sound Transit Prop 1 wins on November 4th, ST starts collecting two million dollars per day in taxes. If Sound Transit Prop 1 loses on November 4th, ST...
Roger (and Will), You may want to check Sound Transit's website on this, since it's right there. Excerpt: Innovation Fund Since we live in an age of continual...
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I've never heard/seen of any 2 cities having potentially the same train sets. All the ones Hitachi has made are different for every city/system. ... three- ......
What do you guys think of an "express" monorail system? It would link West Seattle with Downtown. I think this would be a smart decision because their commutes...
For those of you who are not already aware, a monorail is being built in Daegu, South Korea that is similar to the system that Cascadia proposed for Seattle....
... Several cities use the same Hitachi Large Type monorail trains including Tama, Kitakyushu, Osaka, and Chongqing. Daegu, Tokyo Disnyland, and the Palm...
Beautiful pictures. Does anyone recall now how many cars the trains were in the original Cascadia proposal? On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Greg & Christine...
I agree on the "type" of train that makes them similar (which is Large, Medium/Standard, & Small). But I'm talking about the actual design. For example,...
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The Cascadia proposal called for an initial delivery of 13 trains of two cars each. ... were in ... three-...
Excerpt: Most interesting is news that monorail research still lives in the Pacific Northwest. There's a report from the Missoulian in November saying that ...
... <jbs@...> wrote: An American (Seattle) company competed for this job against some big boys from Asia, and won. Urbanaut build pictures from Incheon: ...
This story was sent to you by: Michael Taylor-Judd ... NTSB: Monorail pilot who died tried to back away from oncoming train ... By Jason Garcia Sentinel Staff...
This story was sent to you by: Michael ... Sources: Monorail collision triggered by worker's failure to activate track switch ... Jason Garcia Sentinel Staff...
From Joel Horn at www.joelhorn.com/recent comments/bringing better transit to the west side (2): "When SMP was coordinating its construction schedule with...