The Site / The Fight

by Yonah Freemark
yfreemark (at) thetransportpolitic (dot) com

  • Le progrès ne vaut que s'il est partagé par tous.

Archives

Categories

  • General Topics
  • Places in Africa and the Middle East
  • Places in Asia and Australia
  • Places in Europe
  • Places in the Americas
  • Places in the United States
  • Transportation Mode
  • U.S. Government

Archive for the ‘Disney’ Category

Walt Disney World Monorail Crashes, Shattering Dream

But it’s been creating all the wrong impressions about transit since 1959.

Early yesterday morning, two Walt Disney World Monorail trains slammed into one another, killing a conductor but injuring none of the passengers on board. It was the first accident on the resort’s primary transportation system since it opened in Florida in 1971. A similar operation at Disneyland in California has been shuttling families around the park since 1959 with no fatal accidents thus far — though there have been a few injuries over the years..

If measured by ridership, the Orlando monorail would be the United States’ ninth heaviest-used rapid transit

Continue reading this post »

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Featured

Linked In

Upcoming

2010 September
  • ▶ FTA Releases TIGER Round II Grants
  • ▶ 30th - FRA releases HSR FY 2010 Grants
December
  • ▶ 6th - Opening of Dallas Green Line Phase II
  • ▶ Opening of Los Angeles' Expo Line Phase I
2011 January
  • ▶ Opening of Sacramento Green Line to the River District
May
  • ▶ Opening of Hampton Roads Tide
Spring
  • ▶ Opening of Salt Lake City Mid-Jordan TRAX
  • ▶ Opening of Denton County A-Train
December
  • ▶ Opening of Pittsburgh North Shore Connector
  • ▶ Opening of Dallas Orange Line Phase I

Network

rss feed
comments feed
twitter feed
email update