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RE: [OT] Wacky!


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  • Subject: RE: [OT] Wacky!
  • From: "Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:41:53 -0000
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It has been built....I saw it many years ago on Tomorrows World, not sure
if
it was a prototype somewhere but it did work.

B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Laurence [mailto:andylaurence@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 December 2001 08:46
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Wacky!


> > Too busy to look at it in detail, but how would it overtake the
one
infront
> > which stops to pick up a passenger?
>
> They have switches (aka points) to let them peel off for a stop. The
whole
> thing is intended to be a transport network rather than just a
point-to-point
> system. On busy routes they can also install multiple tracks (in 3
> dimensions!) to load share.

Fair enough.  Makes sense really.

> Sadly it's still vapourware as no-one is willing to be first.

Can't think why ;-)

I can't help thinking that if it was ever built it'd look awful having
hundreds of these monorails overhead.  It'd be cool for the first week, but
then it'd be annoying.

Andy
--
PC-Based Multimedia System - prototype running (updates later)
http://www.andylaurence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcbmms

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