Monorails do not have “limitations when
changing tracks”. There are eight
different ways to switch routes, depending
on the type of monorail involved.

People who maintain the switching myth are apparently not familiar with the fact that
monorails are currently running successfully around the world:
10 systems in North America
11 systems in Japan
16 systems in other Asian countries
3 systems in Australia
10 systems in Europe; the one in Germany has
been in operation for over 100 years
and. if you include magnetic levitation (Yes,
that science-fiction transportation method is currently operating in China), an additional one whose switches operate without any moving parts.

That list of countries world-wide with successful operations seems to contradict the statement above that the one in the Tampa Airport is “one of the few … that fill a practical need.”
Monorails seem fated to be misrepresented.

Dont get us wrong, we love Monorails but when you compare them to a train you have to admit that switching tracks is going to be more costly and slower. Perhaps we wrote this a bit wrong but we were trying to highlight the fact that this monorail we featured here was all about moving people and does a good job of it and is not a touristy type of transport system.