The Seattle monorail actually runs on rubber tires on concrete "rails."

The original idea when the mile and a half of monorail was built prior to the Seattle World's Fair in 1962 was to extend the system to cover the entire Puget Sound area. They never did. Since then, the voters have voted to do exactly that, but for some reason the local "Twits in Charge" have ignored the voters and are planning a light rail system that involves boring tunnels all over the city for about ten times the cost of extending the monorail. Bloody morons!!

I think someone will probably make more money off the tunnels than they would off the monorail. As the blue alien told Spock on an early episode of Star Trek TOS, "Don't waste time questioning a folly. Just ask what it accomplishes."

Don Firth