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Las Vegas Monorail Bondholder Sues for Fraud

Citigroup is being sued for knowingly overstating ridership and advertising revenue projections for the Las Vegas monorail while soliciting investors for the system.
9 January 2012 - 8:00am
Nevada Journal

Dude, Where's My People Mover?

Automated monorails were the hottest invention since the wheel back in the 1960s, and the Feds wanted to see them in every city. So what happened?
8 December 2011 - 2:00pm
New Urban Network

Sao Paulo Plans Monorail

Sao Paulo, Brazil has awarded a contract to build a new monorail system connecting the airport to the city's transit system.
30 June 2011 - 6:00am
Smart Planet

Is the Age of the Monorail Finally Here?

As part of a series of articles on the future of transportation in the U.S., the Wall St. Journal says the time may finally have arrived for the retro-futurism of the monorail.
23 May 2011 - 2:00pm
The Wall St. Journal

Monorails of Yore

Maggie Koerth-Baker digs into the history of monorails, and finds examples in the United States as early as 1876.
19 May 2011 - 2:00pm
Boing Boing

Soviet Monorail to the Future

The blog of Pavel Popelskii highlights illustrations from a time when Russia was looking towards a bright, space-age future, with nuclear-powered dirigibles and "super mega jet air cushion trains".
15 April 2011 - 10:00am
scienceillustration.mypage.ru

Monorails Fade As Streetcars Retake Spotlight

Streetcars -- a relatively old transportation technology -- have more traction than high tech solutions like monorails in the modern age of mobility. Want proof? Just look at Disneyland, says Tom Vanderbilt.
15 January 2011 - 7:00am
Slate

Major Monorail Project Stalled in Brazil

A $776 million monorail system planned in the Brazilian city of Manaus to ease transportation issue when it hosts the 2014 World Cup has been suspended.
6 October 2010 - 7:00am
Business News Americas

Mumbai's Monorail Future

This post from The City Fix looks at the investment Mumbai is making in developing a citywide mass transit system.
12 February 2010 - 9:00am
The City Fix

Las Vegas Monorail Bankruptcy: An Omen For Private Transit?

Railway Age advances the notion that private transit is simply not feasible in the U.S. due to economic fluctuations, as shown by the declaration of bankruptcy of the not-for-profit Las Vegas Monorail Company.
18 January 2010 - 2:00pm
RailwayAge

The Bizarre Planning of the Las Vegas Monorail

There's a monorail on the Las Vegas Strip. Well, kinda. It's actually behind the casinos and hotels that line the famous strip. This piece from Metropolis explains how it got there and why it's not so good.
20 December 2009 - 5:00am
Metropolis

Solar Monorail

Bologna, Italy is getting a new monorail to connect the city with the airport, powered by photovoltaic panels built into the infrastructure.
3 November 2009 - 12:00pm
Inhabitat

A Monorail for the Senate?

No, it's not some stimulus package boondoggle- it turns out there truly was an underground monorail carrying public servants from the Senate Office Building to the Capitol Building. It opened in 1912 and lasted until 1961.
20 April 2009 - 7:00am
Paleo-Future
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The First U.S. Monorail Wasn't at Disneyland

The Ohio Mechanical Handling Co. reflects back on designing and building the first commercial monorail in the United States for a park in Akron, Ohio.
12 August 2008 - 9:00am
Akron Beacon Journal
Chris Steins

Las Vegas' Hidden Monorail

Sun, 09/16/2007 - 13:19

Los Vegas MonorailI was visiting Las Vegas for a wedding and, rather than blow my salary on the blackjack table, I was eager to try the new Las Vegas Monorail. As the world's only city-scale example of a technology that was once envisioned as the future of mass transit, the Las Vegas Monorail has seven stops along a route that roughly parallels Las Vegas Strip, with stations connected to major hotels.

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