CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I often read articles and watch videos about public transit these days.
Examples:
RM Transit
City Beautiful
B1M
Simply Railway
DownieLive
A decade ago, I signed a petition in favor of of a high speed suspended monorail to serve the Quebec City to Montreal corridor. Back then, it was called the Trens-Québec. Nowadays, an entity named Coop MGV is pushing the same project. I think it makes a lot of sense. It is quite feasible from a technical perspective and the cost should be lower than other fast public transit. Plus, it doesn't take a large footprint on the ground (so much less expropriations are needed) and since it doesn't interact with other transit ways, the operation could be fully automated, even for large distance travels.
However, many have expressed skepticism over the technology. Some don't believe that high speeds could be achieved with a monorail since all those made so far are rather slow. Other arguments are about the longer curves needed to accomodate the targeted speed, the difficulty to shift tracks to change direction and finally there are concerns that the projected acceleration rate would cause discomfort to passengers. In my opinion, only the track alignment could be an issue, because long cuves and accelration rates are similar concerns for high speed trains found all around the world and those have been addressed succesfully already.
I recently watched the following video about private trains with greats cars. Imagine how travel could be with spacious cars, under a monorail, with large windows and great views. If that wouldn't be enough to convince JTR to get out of New York once in a while, I don't know what would.
Building a high speed, fully automated, suspended monorail across major cities of the East and Center of North America would be a great way to stimulated the economy and reduce the polution generated by the air travel industry. Here's an example of links that could be built between cities as well as an unsophisticated estimate of travel time between some cities :
Other travel times would be:
Chicago to Mineapolis: 3h15
Chicago to Detroit: 3h00
Detroit to Toronto: 2h45
I didn't include a link North of Milwaukee because I'm a Bears fan. Green Bay can go to hell
Finally, the lines could incorporate fiber links to improve connectivity between the stations and gerate additional revenues.
Of course, I would have to be as rich as Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk just to start such a project, which I don't see happening. It would be a far better investment in my view, instead of spending billions sending rockets into LEO. It would improve lives of people tremendously more.
Examples:
RM Transit
City Beautiful
B1M
Simply Railway
DownieLive
A decade ago, I signed a petition in favor of of a high speed suspended monorail to serve the Quebec City to Montreal corridor. Back then, it was called the Trens-Québec. Nowadays, an entity named Coop MGV is pushing the same project. I think it makes a lot of sense. It is quite feasible from a technical perspective and the cost should be lower than other fast public transit. Plus, it doesn't take a large footprint on the ground (so much less expropriations are needed) and since it doesn't interact with other transit ways, the operation could be fully automated, even for large distance travels.
However, many have expressed skepticism over the technology. Some don't believe that high speeds could be achieved with a monorail since all those made so far are rather slow. Other arguments are about the longer curves needed to accomodate the targeted speed, the difficulty to shift tracks to change direction and finally there are concerns that the projected acceleration rate would cause discomfort to passengers. In my opinion, only the track alignment could be an issue, because long cuves and accelration rates are similar concerns for high speed trains found all around the world and those have been addressed succesfully already.
I recently watched the following video about private trains with greats cars. Imagine how travel could be with spacious cars, under a monorail, with large windows and great views. If that wouldn't be enough to convince JTR to get out of New York once in a while, I don't know what would.
Building a high speed, fully automated, suspended monorail across major cities of the East and Center of North America would be a great way to stimulated the economy and reduce the polution generated by the air travel industry. Here's an example of links that could be built between cities as well as an unsophisticated estimate of travel time between some cities :
Other travel times would be:
Chicago to Mineapolis: 3h15
Chicago to Detroit: 3h00
Detroit to Toronto: 2h45
I didn't include a link North of Milwaukee because I'm a Bears fan. Green Bay can go to hell
Finally, the lines could incorporate fiber links to improve connectivity between the stations and gerate additional revenues.
Of course, I would have to be as rich as Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk just to start such a project, which I don't see happening. It would be a far better investment in my view, instead of spending billions sending rockets into LEO. It would improve lives of people tremendously more.