NorthAmericaRailwatch:Seattle monorail crash

[ttaaee]

Admin mentioned the Florida bullet train (http://www.floridabullettrain.com/) on 2bangkok.com main page. Here is California high speed rail authority (http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/index.html) website.

[Pas]

Isn't there another highspeed train project linking Boston-Philadelphia & New York?

[jpatokal]

Not just a project but reality: the Boston-NY-Philly ''Acela Express'' is the only existing high-speed train in the US. (Although it's not very high speed by most non-American standards...)

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela

[Wisarut]

Because those Gaddamned Bush and GOP wanna kill and maim the High Speed Rail System -> through very shoddy implementation of Acela (Boston-NY-Philladelphia-Washington DC) as well as the still-born High Speed Railway at Florida ...
to keep Airline, Highway and Oil lobbyists happy at the expense of American people.

[ttaaee]

.....Just weeks after voters struck down plans for a new monorail, a design glitch and a communication mishap immobilized the old one.

Like conjoined twins, the Red and Blue trains remained frozen on the track above Fifth Avenue and Olive Way after the two sideswiped each other in a tight curve authorities have known about since 1989, when the inclusion of Westlake Center changed the original 1962 track design to taper at the point leading into the mall.

"It's too narrow for two to be there," said Seattle Center spokesman Perry Cooper "There was some sort of communication problem."

There are supposed to be signal lights on the track and communication between drivers when both trains are running, he said, suggesting that one or both of those safety measures failed Saturday night.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation. None of the 80 people who were evacuated from the trains on fire ladders was seriously injured....

Click to read more (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/249991_monorail28.html)

Click for some pics of the crash (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/photos/popup.asp?gtitle=Monorail%20accident&SubID=1314&page=0&css=gtitle.css)

Source: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/