Tag: MONORAIL

When you think of monorails, you probably conjure up images of the famed Disney World shuttle or of a super-fast bullet train rocketing across Japan, not about recumbent bicycles housed in plastic tubes dangling from some roller coaster-like track. The latter is essentially what the folks at Shweeb have created, though, and Google thinks the idea is good enough for the company to invest $1 ...

The 38-year-old Walt Disney World Monorail System suffered its first fatal accident on Sunday when a driver failed to stop and slammed into the back of a stationary train, killing him instantly. The accident occurred at 2 a.m. with 21-year-old Austin Wuennenberg behind the controls, and six passengers on board. All the other passengers escaped unharmed, but Wuennenberg was not so lucky. Disney ...

Don't blame us, but we're a little disappointed by the lack of Jetsons-style transportation in this, the 21st century. That's why we couldn't suppress some silly grins when we saw this new rail system designed by students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Faced with the imposing infrastructural challenge of boarding stations, the industrial design students decided to ditch them ...

If you've been to Walt Disney World or Disneyland anytime in, say, the past 50 years, then you've surely seen the sleek monorails gliding (and clunking) around in an endless loop on their concrete rails. A wave of the future the slick trainl-like vehicles were supposed to be when they were introduced in 1959, but now, if anything, they're a quaint throwback to '60s-era visions of the future. ...