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Let's build a monorail

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    spareman
    Registered Users Posts: 540 ✭✭✭spareman


    Slice wrote: »
    http://www.monometro.com/

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOQyFYXQSEQ

    While surfing I came accross this so I googled it some more. It sounds like a complete novelty but I thought the rest of you would be interested in seeing it.
    Dont they have something simular in London, The Docklands light rail I think it is spends alot of time in the air.


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    "Is there a chance the track could bend"?


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    John_C
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    Stekelly wrote: »
    "Is there a chance the track could bend"?

    Not at all my Hindu friend!


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,294 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    It's what we should have built instead of the Luas, there would have been a lot less disruption to traffic and the road could still be used fully after it was built. One was suggested as a possibility for linking up the two lines but I think the main objections had something to do with the pylons obscuring the view of the likes of Trinity.


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    woop
    Registered Users Posts: 809 ✭✭✭woop


    oi didnt they do this in the simpsons........didnt work out to the best of my knowledge








    funny I was actually thinking about this the other day


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    paulm17781
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭paulm17781


    John_C wrote: »
    Not at all my Hindu friend!

    <pedant>Not on your life my Hindu friend</pedant> :)


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    faceman
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    spareman wrote: »
    Dont they have something simular in London, The Docklands light rail I think it is spends alot of time in the air.

    its a great network in london. The DLR (Docklands Light Rail) is completely automated, and goes both above and underground.


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    spareman
    Registered Users Posts: 540 ✭✭✭spareman


    faceman wrote: »
    its a great network in london. The DLR (Docklands Light Rail) is completely automated, and goes both above and underground.
    Yes thats the one, I couldnt get over the fact there was no Driver. Its a very good system.


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    zanardi
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭zanardi


    It would have the same efffect on the skyline as the ambitious Heuston-Liffey cable car scheme:

    http://tinyurl.com/ysu6l3

    Apart from the massive cost it has a major bonus in that the smell of urine in the station entrances will get blown away.


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    bryanw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭bryanw


    woop wrote: »
    oi didnt they do this in the simpsons........didnt work out to the best of my knowledge
    Yeh - we should do it! It would fit right in with all our other stuff that doesn't work properly.

    (sings) MONORAIL! MONORAIL! MONORAIL! Mono - D'oh!
    :D Had to be done...


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    carlmango11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭carlmango11


    No! NO!!! Not another mode of transport PLEASE!!! :(:(:( Wed then have Suburban Trains, Commuter Trains, Trams, Buses, Underground Metros maybe even CABLE CARS!!! then a monorail!! ARGH! Why cant we just choose our most succesful mode and expand it! WHHHY!!!!!

    Funnily enough with all these youd think public transport wouldnt suck ass :D:D


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    andrew163
    Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭andrew163


    We'd finally be as cool as Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway!


    *ducks*


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    #14
    Slice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭Slice


    Modes of transport are like shoes - you can never have too many


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    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    Enough Simpsons quotes people!

    Had a look at the vid. Pretty impressive. I like the narrow profile of the rails, they would cause little shadowing on the street below. Only major issue is that it's probably overspecced for anything smaller than a major city - even in a city like Dublin it would be out of scale for our lowrise streets. Imagine one of those going down O'Connell St - it would be higher than all the surrounding buildings.


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