When I was a child, the cities of the future were filled with monorails. But the idea never caught on outside of theme parks and the like, and things like this.
Meanwhile, who would have though that we’d see the revival of what was then thought a completely obsolete technology, the tram? But these are not your grandfather’s trams; the new trams in Nottingham look as sleek and futuristic as any of the monorails we dreamed of in the sixties. So maybe the future did happen, only not quite as we expected?
(Links from Live from the Third Rail and Transport Blog)
The Simpsons – Monorail song…
I heard those things are awfully loud
They ride as softly as a cloud
Is there a chance the track may bend??
Not on your life, my Hindu friend
What about us brain dead slobs?
You’ll be given cushy jobs
Where you sent here by the devil?
No good man I’m on the level
The ring broke off my pudding can
Take my pen knife my good man
I say its Spiringfeild’s only choice
Throw up your hands and raise your voice
MONORAIL!! MONORAIL!! MONORAIL!!
But Mainstreet’s still all cracked and broken!
Sorry, mom, the mob has spoken!
MONORAIL!! MONORAIL!! MONORAIL!!
Mono- DOH