[PRCo] Re: how does this happen?

[Bill Robb]

Streetcars have had non-clearance curves before, so
why not monorails?  But if it is non-clearance curve
it should be signed.

With a monorail clearances may be dictated by the
existing structures along the right of way.

Bill Robb

--- aprochek at aol.com wrote:

> Now how the hell does this happen?  I would have
> thought monorails had clearance curves, I mean,
> isn't that the whole point of putting them up there
> in the first place?
>  
>  
> SEATTLE - Two monorail trains clipped each other on
> a curve in the tracks Saturday evening in the heart
> of Seattle. No injuries were immediately reported. 
> Seattle firefighters on four ladder trucks were
> helping passengers off the only two trains on the
> one-mile, 43-year-old elevated line between downtown
> and the Seattle Center.
> About 55 people were on one train and 20 on the
> other when they collided near Westlake Center, said
> Helen Fitzpatrick, Seattle Fire Department
> spokeswoman. She said each person was checked for
> injuries after reaching the ground.
> Several blocks of Fifth Avenue were closed after the
> accident, which happened shortly after 7 p.m., she
> said.
> The monorail was built for the Seattle World's Fair
> in 1962 and has been popular with tourists, drawing
> as many as 23,000 riders a day. But a years-long
> fight to expand the system met with sound rejection
> this month. 
> Voters approved a 14-mile system in 2002, but
> opposition grew after the estimated price more than
> quadrupled to $11.4 billion. On Nov. 8 voters junked
> the project entirely, rejecting a 10.6-mile, $4.9
> billion alternative monorail proponents had offered.
> The line was shut down for more than six months last
> year, after a smoky fire stranded about 100 riders.
> No one was seriously hurt.
> ___
> 
> 
> 



		
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