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

[tomh009]

Whenever I look down Charles from the Benton St. parking garage, I shake my head. The OCS/Catenary is so thick and dense. It's really about as ugly as you could possibly get.  And yet,people throw up their arms about a single, slender, smooth concrete beam. I'll never get it (and don't want to)!

While catenaries are not pretty, a bidirectional monorail would also need to be wider (two trains need to fit) -- and isn't a walkway a requirement as well, for emergency exit in case of train engine failure?  That would make the monorail beam pretty much as wide as our LRT embedded track concrete, I think.