Omss-Culture: Culturebox: Streetcars vs. Monorails



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transport Streetcars vs. Monorails The future of urban transportation looks a lot like the past. By Tom Vanderbilt Posted Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, at 4:19 PM ET There is a great, if unnamed and often overlooked, attraction in Disney World: Transportationland. As any visitor knows, one of the most striking experiences at Disney World is navigating it. The place offers an impressively multi-modal suite of options. There's walking, horseless carriages, steamboats, the famous monorail (said to carry more passengers than most U.S. light-rail systems), horse-drawn trolleys, the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover, not to mention mobility scooters and, at some parks, bikes. Then there's the bus fleet that shuttles visitors from the parking lots to the entrance gates. (If it were a municipal fleet, a Disney engineer once told me, it would be the 21^st largest in the United States.) To continue reading, click here. ArtforumPrintI.D.Design ObserverWiredWilson QuarterlyNew York Times MagazineLondon Review of Books Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE \| READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Why Glock Handguns Are So Popular in America How Obama Can Talk About Tolerance in Tucson Without Trivializing a Tragedy Are Political Assassins More Likely To Target Conservatives or Liberals?	Advertisement
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transport Streetcars vs. Monorails The future of urban transportation looks a lot like the past. By Tom Vanderbilt Posted Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, at 4:19 PM ET There is a great, if unnamed and often overlooked, attraction in Disney World: Transportationland. As any visitor knows, one of the most striking experiences at Disney World is navigating it. The place offers an impressively multi-modal suite of options. There's walking, horseless carriages, steamboats, the famous monorail (said to carry more passengers than most U.S. light-rail systems), horse-drawn trolleys, the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover, not to mention mobility scooters and, at some parks, bikes. Then there's the bus fleet that shuttles visitors from the parking lots to the entrance gates. (If it were a municipal fleet, a Disney engineer once told me, it would be the 21^st largest in the United States.) To continue reading, click here. ArtforumPrintI.D.Design ObserverWiredWilson QuarterlyNew York Times MagazineLondon Review of Books Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE \| READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Why Glock Handguns Are So Popular in America How Obama Can Talk About Tolerance in Tucson Without Trivializing a Tragedy Are Political Assassins More Likely To Target Conservatives or Liberals?	Advertisement
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Culturebox: Streetcars vs. Monorails

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