Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more

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I imagine Canard will disagree with the presenter's opinion of the technology - but here's some lovely footage of the suspended monorail in Wuppertal:

I was also thinking of this thread when I watched the video.

I used to be a fanboy of monorail, having bought the "transportation system of the future" line just like many others. But one sunny day in 2000, apropos of nothing and while about to board the Seattle monorail I realized that I had never seen any evidence as to why monorail was "technology of the future". So I started doing a bit of research and realized it was all Disney marketing. The aesthetics are impeccable, but that is not technology. Even Bombardier implicitly admits to this in the title of their monorail web page: "Mass Transit Capacity with Iconic Aesthetics"