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LA is considering options for the Sepulveda corridor that is desperately needed to better connect the area, but the options it’s considering includes… a monorail. Here’s why that’s a bad idea.
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I think they are considering monorail because they operate much most quieter than metro.
Is there a chance the track could bend?
But Reece, don’t you want to Build Your Dreams?
how are they gonna finish all this before the olympics? lolol
I hear it "rides as softly as a cloud", that's good enough for me.
It’s for the Olympics
You keep saying it runs along many destinations without saying what destinations. What destinations? Westwood at one end, Getty Museum in the middle and San Fernando Valley at the other end. What destinations?
The US does everything to avoid building a proper train service.
You take way too long to explain why a monorail is inferior to transit.
I always find the absolute ignoring of regional rail in LA so strange. It’s the perfect solution for the sprawling city that it is. Who wants to build slow tens of miles long light rail lines? I know I don’t
A video about the Nuremberg transit network would be interesting, since they also had the first train line in Germany. If I remember right it was to shorten the transport time for a Brewery in Fürth to Nuremberg.
A Dangle Train would be better than a monorail.
Alweg asked Los Angeles would build them a system back in the 1950s.
Glad you made this. There’s something succinct and convincing LA area residents can point to to educate their representatives and other public servants
You can make a video of the Dominican Republic. They have a metro system in their capital, they are building a monorail in their second city.
Quick question. Could a subway style national rail network work.
For example:
(stand with me this about to get dense)
If Amtrak were to rebrand thier east corridor as a new service where people had to buy cards (on/off line) and tap those card into gates while entering and then taps those card into different gates while leaving and you would be charged a fee for how long you spent traveling along with a service fee.
The trains on this service would be painted different than amtrak other trains. With more frequent service (10-15 minutes every local.
20-30 minutes every express
And finally the stations would be remodeled with metro like additions. (Digital screens telling you how far a train is. Greater Wayfinding tools ect,ect.)
Now. If Amtrak were to do all the previously mention changes to the east corridor could Amtrak gain more money/a greater amount of riders on said corridor.
I think one can surmise that they are aware of all of these difficulties, most likely because some money has changed hands into their banks, after all it only took you a few minutes to explain all of the issues.
I see Monorail Guy is really trying to make it in the big-time.
Monorail: The Thing That LA Always Kinda Wanted But Never Actually Committed To Because it would be Terrible and Didn't Make Sense
I kinda want Los Angeles to get a monorail on the sepulveda, I would just find it funny that they would get a sub par transit system installed from the get go. I just love the mismanagement of funds there. I'm not from thank god, but I will laugh on the side from where I am from.
lets be honest lesley, la is justa worse barcelona
Can you do a video about the train systems in manila?
Can you believe BYD had a hand in building Bart back in the day lol….
that is a very difficult title to read
Apparently BYD are trying to flog this system in Europe, too. This isn't bespoke for LA. Still very stupid tho.
I think this is some kind of north american problem. People, especially in the US, seem to be of the oppinion, that everything needs to be a novelty or very special and entertaining to actually be good. Doesnt matter if the president performs its duties quite well. If he isn't entertaining the public he's bad, rather having a bad reality TV show leading the country! The same counts for all the other projects like this. The main goal is stimulating peoples instant reward region in the brain and give them something, "new, futureistic and exciting" instead of designing a reasonable project, that just works.
People in management and marketing have driven each other to the extreme in opting only for these solutions because peoples brains needs something more exciting time and time again.
And in the end you have the worst possible solution and realize there was a reason no one ever tried it. And the worst thing. They will not realise where the problem was and just try something even more stupid next time, because the reason must have been, that it just wasnt ambitious and inflated enough…
Just move to a place where you can commute via bicycle
Disney offered to build LA a monorail system 60 years ago but was turned down.
the ~ $409 million 9 mile Arrow Line killed 3 people already including a 7 year old kid
When building any major product, including but not limited to transit, cities should follow one basic rule.
1. Don't trust China
I work at the Getty Center and live in the San Fernando Valley. The Sepulveda Corridor is one busiest and congested areas to traverse through when getting to and from work. I always wanted to see light rail system to go on Sepulveda so there would be a stop to work, which would be convenient. The monorail however, knowing LA’s history of transit and how they please more to their wealthy residents (i.e Bel Air and Brentwood) of allowing such transit to pass through is challenging. In other words, the monorail feels like dead on arrival.
New York City & LA trialed BYD electric buses, they did well & BYD North America is based right in LA, though there are probably better Chinese companies to look for to build a high quality modern metro system just like they have all around China including in Beijing; Guangzhou; Chongqing; Shenzhen; etc.
On topic: I've been to Los Angeles in 2016 and the rail network was surprisingly good. Very few rail systems can compare to the Big Apple 🍎🍏 (where I'm from) but the "City of Angels", but after having gone a generation without having major rail transportation of some sort, LA is playing the "catch-up" game successfully, and just opened a rail project this past June (Regional Connector) and have a pair of rail projects soon-to-be open before the 2028 Olympics.
Off topic: Are you or will you be in Montréal at the end of July for the festivities relating to the opening of the REM? If so, great! Would be fantastic for you and many Montrealers (and all Canadians) and transit advocates on YouTube (like you) to give the REM your first impressions.
Interesting debate considering LA once had one of the best inter-urban rail systems in the country with the red cars. That said, why build any lines that have incompatible tracks with ones already built? On it's face, it seems like a dumb idea.
A monorail, what's next "pods' or a underground Tesla track.
I give up on ever being car free in 'Merica.