A Look-Ahead Monorail System
The state of California and the counties of Southern California are missing a great revenue opportunity that would also make the Air Quality Management District happy!
Build a rapid transit system, but lease the vehicles to the users! Build a multiple monorail system over our present street system and park the vehicles in the users’ garages or street. Provide electric power for propulsion but charge individually for it.
Envision a comfortable two-seater, air-conditioned, personally decorated, with a simple computer control telling the master control where you want to go. The master control selects the route, switches the vehicle at the appropriate intersections and delivers you to your destination cool and unruffled.
The vehicle, about a six-foot cube weighing 200 pounds empty, is propelled by an adaptation of a linear motor, totally non-polluting. Larger, family-size vehicles would also be available.
A multiple monorail system could provide vertical separation at intersections with slowing only for turns and merging with a new stream of vehicles.
Wouldn’t you give a vehicle like this space in your garage?
LEE AUBEL
Brea
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