Hot take: I kind of like monorailshttps://twitter.com/metroreportint/status/983344285075542016 …
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Replying to @urban_loudmouth
I don't see anything particularly wrong with monorails. I just don't really understand why they are better than regular trains.
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Replying to @YIMBY_Princeton
I don’t think they are. Aren’t they cheaper?
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Replying to @YIMBY_Princeton @urban_loudmouth
No clue. Not sure the sample size is big enough to really tell tbh.
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He posted some article about it a couple years back. I gotta go look for it
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Construction costs are pretty similar. Main argument for monorail is that the structure is less visually obtrusive.https://pedestrianobservations.com/2013/08/24/monorail-construction-costs/ …
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Replying to @alon_levy @urban_loudmouth and
Why were the Tama and Chiba monorails not built as regular rail els, since Japan is evidently happy to build those elsewhere?
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Replying to @threestationsq @alon_levy and
Not sure but my guesses have to do with alignments and grades involved
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Replying to @380kmh @alon_levy and
Is the motivation of deliberately obstructing through-running (like wrong-side driving on the Paris Metro, or odd trolley gauges in the US) ever present in Japan?
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Not to my knowledge
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