Comments on: The Tampa Airport Monorail http://www.transeum.com/trains-monorail/the-tampa-airport-monorail.html Transeum - the blog about Planes, Trains and Automobiles Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:28:00 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Wattsy http://www.transeum.com/trains-monorail/the-tampa-airport-monorail.html/comment-page-1#comment-1439 Wattsy Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:44:09 +0000 http://www.transeum.com/trains-monorail/the-tampa-airport-monorail.html#comment-1439 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. 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.

]]> By: H N Pelta http://www.transeum.com/trains-monorail/the-tampa-airport-monorail.html/comment-page-1#comment-1435 H N Pelta Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:50:22 +0000 http://www.transeum.com/trains-monorail/the-tampa-airport-monorail.html#comment-1435 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. 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.

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