Thank you both for your responses.
@z1: I didn't know that was a myth. That explains so much. I did, in fact, have the exact same stops for both my train and monorail. I was hoping the load would be split as the poor used the train and the rich used the monorail, but your explanation is clear as to why only the monorail was being used.
I've theorized that if I wanted to continue my experiment of splitting the mass transit among wealth levels, I could have (for example) only bus/train stops in my poor neighborhoods, and only monorail stations in my rich neighborhoods. The exit points for both would, of course, be dispersed in the commercial and industrial areas. This way, in order to get from home to work, they would only have one choice of which kind of mass transit to use. It would be an artificial way of controlling the behavior of the classes. I might try this experiment and see if it works.
@z1 and @A Nonny Moose: Of course, both of you make excellent points that perhaps monorail is not the way to go. It does take up a lot of real estate and it is expensive to maintain. At the end of the day, the only real reason I like to use it is because I think it looks really cool
@A Nonny Moose: Given a choice between ground rail and subways, I prefer rail as well. One of the reasons is that I love to use it to get the freight out of the city. I just think it's more efficient than getting all those trucks to the edge of the screen. And if I've already got the rail for the freight, it's just a wasted shame not to put some passenger stations on there and move my sims around too. Of course, when the city starts to become really crowded, it becomes difficult to place new rail lines. That's usually when I switch to the subways -- or maybe monorails
Again, thank you both for your responses. I appreciate you taking the time to explain this issue to me.
