Eureka! the real truth about so-called "monorails"

[gamer01965 1]

"Mono" means one right? well, in SimCity 4, monorails have two rails unlike real life. So why are they called

Monorails? Some even claim monorails create a fair amount of pollution...Monorails in real life are powered by electricity.

We have a serious issue with monorails...

or should I say....Bi-rails?

Ps. how about ground monorails?

[LironTheChick 20]

It is still a monorail in-game... Yeah, it has two rails to allow two-way traffic...Single-Track differs from Monorail... one rail in a Monorail is equivalent to one track, so to allow two-way traffic, monorails are Double-Track...

[Darth Apple 54]

yes , one-rail per train.

gamer01965:

very few monorails exist in the world ,although , strangely , its the only kind of public mass transit I have ever been on , all I have ever heard of have been elavated , I don't think they are really meant to be on the ground.

another point , is , well , the are placed in very urban places , like tokyo , so , that would be a lot of bridges taking additional space.

you can't really just build the roads on top without bridging , either , because of the high likely traffic.

Hope this helps.

[Randomtaskk 1]

I wish there was a monorail over road puzzle piece set with NAM XD

[gamer01965 1]

But usually monorail rails aren't so close to each other

and who's annoyed with those unrealistic hexagonal supports?

[Randomtaskk 1]

I dont know where you've been looking but whenever I've seen monorails theyre the same as in SC4...

[warrior 169]

Here is apicture showing how close the monorail is in RL:

And another picture showing the monorails close togther

Obviously from Dubai, as anywhere else it would take 50 years to decide/vote whether or not to build it)

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/4650/exteriorsiderenderingnl0.jpg

Jonathan

[Randomtaskk 1]

/me cant wait to get onto his work projects in Dubai XD

[TFM1874 4]

Maybe a sill question, but I have the high speed rail thingy installed.....not that I have managed to use it yet and it sort of took the place of monorail in the game. My question is, can I still build a monorail system in my game and wil it work?

[masochist 111]

With the later versions of the High-Speed Rail Mod, yes, you can still create monorails along side them. With the Bullet Train Mod, no, because it completely replaces the monorail system.

[cirvianum 0]

When you see double lane rail tracks, why not call it "four-rail"?

Its da same

BTW Why people at NAM don't improve monorail?

[warrior 169]

Because, there isn't that much love for it and we've all got things we're working on.

Though I would love to update the monorail to that Dubai one.

So if someone makes the models I can help with the modding side.(it would be very easy indeed, no RULs no paths[if the models were made to be the same size and place as they currently are.])

Jonathan

[Retep Molinari 68]

Originally posted by: gamer01965

Some even claim monorails create a fair amount of pollution...Monorails in real life are powered by electricity. quote>

Electric vehicles are not always emission free. Acutally, emission-free electric transit is only becioming common in American cities over the past decade, and progress is slow.

Ps. how about ground monorails?quote>

How would this work? Ground rail and light rail need only raise a few inches off the ground, but the grip that allows monoraisl to only use one track is much larger. Also, this prevents crossings with other rails or roads.

[warrior 169]

gamer01965, but then how is the electricity made? I bet it isn't made using no emissions.

We all need to switch to hydrogen power, Apparently some company invented a piece of plastic that seperates water into H and 02.

And the only emission of hydrogen power is water which contains hydrogen (ie there's a cycle)

I though about Ground monorail i think I even made some model for it, but it would be off the ground just not as much as normal monorail

Jonathan

[Jatsc 1]

Ever seen what happens when you mess up with hydrogen you get a big boom and I would not take the chance of that happening

[warrior 169]

Errm, http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/

Jonathan

[ch0c0 13]

nothing in there to keep the tank from rupturing.....i used to work with hydrogen.....its not so easy to contain. it may be ok in a fender bender, but a serious accident could end up a catastrophe. people generall can't drive as is....i'd rather not arm every idiot out there with a mobile bomb.

[railfan88 1]

are u kidding me? the monorails ARE 1 rail but if you look carefully there is one rail for each way. there are no 1 line monorails on sc4. (that would be cool) like there is for trains (download only)

anyway i don't use monorails. i use the bullet train mod whcih turns the monorail track into normal track and the monorails into bullet trains

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