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What I had in mind for the monorail was to have sections of it going center above roads and avenues to give your cities more of a Seattle feel to them. That would really improve the monorail networks! quote> That's the way monorail should have been implemented in the game. Monorail as standalone tiles is okay, but the one great thing about monorails is that they can be built above streets, on medians, through buildings, etc. with less impact and noise on cities than regular rapid transit trains. Here's a few pictures of monorail lines at grade, through buildings, underground, etc: Here's one of the service vehicles on the at-grade track near one of the tunnels. Another pic through a building: Monorail as it should have been implemented in Sim City: on an avenue median: At the very minimum, can we have a monorail<>subway connector that makes it look like the monorail goes underground? In China, one of their cities has their monorail go underground in subway tunnels for a few stations, so making a monorail<>subway network transition piece would be cool.

Originally posted by: ck135667...These High speed trans can travell up to 165 MPH! Thats 2 and 1/2 times US Avrage freeway Speed limit! Literaly Breaking the sound barier!...quote> Originally posted by Wikipedia Article: SupersonicAny speed over the speed of sound, which is approximately 343 m/s, 1,087 ft/s, 761 mph or 1,235 km/h in air at sea level, is said to be supersonic. Speeds greater than 5 times the speed of sound are sometimes referred to as hypersonic.quote>The speed of sound is 1235 km/h or 761 mph. The fastest commercial train in the world is the Shanghai maglev, which travels at 430 km/h (267 mph) in regular service. Even this is only one-third the speed of sound.

It appears that everything on the ST NAM site has been lost or deleted. The Index of / only appears when there is no files on the server. Was the site purposely deleted? Was it hacked? Is the database still intact? (For everyone here, forums use a database to store all their information). Too many questions...

Date: 10/27/2005 7:14:01 PM Author: Murakumon I never use monorails because they have no flexibility in sim city. If they could go over roads then i might use them. I just think they look bad in sim city, with the oversized support columns quote> I love using monorails, but I am curious. Would anyone be able to mod the monorail pylons (columns) to make them narrower? Most monorails in the world have a pylon width of no more than 1.5 to 2 meters. The ones in SC4 are definitely bigger than that. This picture shows the monorail in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Thinner monorail pylons to match these would be an awesome mod.

Are you looking for this? Click on the map for a full size version. ? That map was from http://www.mapofspringfield.com/map/index.html . I don't want to sound rude, but try searching on Google or any search engine next time. I typed in the simpsons springfield and the website where I found the map was the third one down.

Where's the Seattle Center Monorail? That is like a classic Seattle icon... I just love those ALWEG monorails in Seattle. They are the only remaining ALWEG built-trains in existence. (For those who don't know what ALWEG is, it was a research and development company in the 1950s and 1960s that invented the modern monorail system in which the monorail train rides on top of a single concrete beam, exactly like the monorails in SC4.)

I know that NAM monorail puzzle pieces over paved ground have already been requested. However, I was wondering: are the monorail pylons (columns) are a single model, just copied to all the track, or are the pylons part of the track. If they are only one model, can this model be made narrower? The monorail column tapers out to fill almost the entire tile, which isn't very realistic. They should only be 1.5 to a maximum of 2.5 meters wide. Here are a few pictures of realistic (narrow) monorail pylons from the Kuala Lumpur monorail: These pictures were obtained from http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/KLspecial05.html . I would do this myself, except that when I tried to register my copy of SC4 Deluxe with simcity.com, it says that it was invalid, even when I had a third person verify that I had typed it in right. TechSupport has yet to really help me. I think that I may just buy Rush Hour to be able to register that code so I can download BAT and Lot Editor to be able to do this stuff.

Looking at those before-and-after pics, one wonders why so many divided roads in the United States don't have light rail lines or at least dedicated bus lanes running down the middle of them. In a lot of places, the density is certainly there.quote> If you really want to see efficient use of median strips, look at these pictures of the Las Vegas Monorail system. Only a four foot wide median was needed. As for SC4BOY's comments, I would say that I disagree. Complaining about how much money is wasted on transit, is drops in the bucket compaired to how much we use for our Interstate Highways. (Highways - Over $33 billion/year, Amtrak - only about $0.5 billion/year). Public transit, of any kind, is needed to sustain our economic, and environmental viabliity. Oil just passed $70 U.S. per barrel. Hybrid gas/electric cars help, but they aren't the solution. A good goal is hydrogen fuel cell cars, but that is at least a decade off. Alternate energy sources are growing rapidly, especially in Germany and Europe. Using electricity from these sources to power electric trains (whether light rail, heavy rail, monorail, maglev, etc) provides us with a efficient transportation network. As for the lack of people using transit, that is relative. Since we hardly spend anything on transit, the existing systems lack ridership because they aren't convienent enough. But by investing in transit, we can achieve profitible transit systems. Yes, there actually are profitible transit systems in the United States. The Seattle Monorail operates for a profit every year, and the Las Vegas Monorail was built with only private funds and no gov't subsidies - the first 100% private transit system since the last of the interurban lines in the 1930s. We can make transit work as a society. We first need to stop the bickering between rapid bus/light rail/monorail about which is better. If we accept that light rail is really good for seperate ROW, low to medium-capacity use; monorail for medium to high-capacity, land-crunched areas; subway for downtown high-capacity areas; and rapid-bus for feeder lines to the fixed-guideway transit stations; and then actually proceed to build the afore mentioned transit in these areas, then we can actually achieve a profitible, efficient, mass transit system. Okay, back to the light rail topic. They have been trying on and off to build a light rail line in Connecticut from Hartford to Bradley International Airport for some time now. The plan would be to use existing abandoned freight railroad ROW for most of the journey, and the line would be badly needed. So far, it's impossible to get to the airport without your car or bus service. And since our current Governor (M. Jodi Rell) seems to like transit as well. She just signed a transportation bill to buy over half a billion dollars worth of new and additional commuter rail cars, and a new commuter rail line (in additional to our existing ones ) from New Haven to Springfield, MA (which will run through my town) is also in the works.