Comments on: The problem with Transit Oriented Development http://5views.com/2008/04/23/the-problem-with-transit-oriented-development/ Right-Blogging Tacoma/Pierce/Puget Sound/Washington Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Mofo from the Hood http://5views.com/2008/04/23/the-problem-with-transit-oriented-development/#comment-746 Mofo from the Hood Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:39:58 +0000 http://5views.com/2008/04/23/the-problem-with-transit-oriented-development/#comment-746 The 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle, themed Century 21, offered the Monorail, a people carrier built on concrete pillars and track, so to travel above and non-interfere with regular street traffic. I always liked the monorail concept. The technology has progressed greatly in terms of how the carrier cars speed down the track cleanly and quietly---Electromagnetics and rubber wheels and other innovations, mostly developed by European or Asian engineers. Concrete Technology Corporation, located in Tacoma on Port of Tacoma Road, is the source for monorail concrete track systems. It is now Century 21 and I can think of only one local monorail---an antique one in Seattle. Could someone kindly point Seattle and Tacoma back to the future? The 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle, themed Century 21, offered the Monorail, a people carrier built on concrete pillars and track, so to travel above and non-interfere with regular street traffic.

I always liked the monorail concept. The technology has progressed greatly in terms of how the carrier cars speed down the track cleanly and quietly—Electromagnetics and rubber wheels and other innovations, mostly developed by European or Asian engineers.

Concrete Technology Corporation, located in Tacoma on Port of Tacoma Road, is the source for monorail concrete track systems.

It is now Century 21 and I can think of only one local monorail—an antique one in Seattle.

Could someone kindly point Seattle and Tacoma back to the future?

]]> By: Eric http://5views.com/2008/04/23/the-problem-with-transit-oriented-development/#comment-745 Eric Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:30:14 +0000 http://5views.com/2008/04/23/the-problem-with-transit-oriented-development/#comment-745 Great write up. I've been saying this for awhile now. If Austin can have a nonrailed thriving free steetcar system spur development along its routes. Then what makes people in Tacoma think that we are so much more advanced that we need to put our future grandkids in the situation that you describe just for nostalgia sake. I feel any system that would be built extending into the neighborhoods after the link should be a pilot project/routes and have wheels. Great write up. I’ve been saying this for awhile now. If Austin can have a nonrailed thriving free steetcar system spur development along its routes. Then what makes people in Tacoma think that we are so much more advanced that we need to put our future grandkids in the situation that you describe just for nostalgia sake. I feel any system that would be built extending into the neighborhoods after the link should be a pilot project/routes and have wheels.

]]> By: C Kneller http://5views.com/2008/04/23/the-problem-with-transit-oriented-development/#comment-740 C Kneller Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:45:37 +0000 http://5views.com/2008/04/23/the-problem-with-transit-oriented-development/#comment-740 I don't like you or your hostile attitude. I don’t like you or your hostile attitude.

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