An American city so modern it would consider monorails and/or magnetic levitation for its public transportation? There is the Moscow Monorail in Russia. There is the SC Maglev in Japan. And, there are others.
What of America? Will it never catch up? Or, are these failed systems, and it is I who needs to catch up?
What of an American city, willing to take these technologies and try them? Advance transportation to the day and age in which we live, the 21st Century. Perhaps even apply them to automobile transportation, as opposed to everyone having to ride public transportation. Still, the cars would run on the same line, concurrently, so you could synchronize them. They would travel the same speed, and draw power from the same source.
Do we dismiss this as too futuristic? Or has it already been proven a failed experiment? I do not know. But, from my distance to what is going on, I suggest we should consider it. Americans are independent -- as are people in other countries. They like their automobile. They do not want to have to catch a bus that forces them to a schedule. They do not want to have to run down to the station to get on the train. They want their own cars, and they want to come and go on their own schedules. Freedom, we call it.
Consider, then, the modern technology and bring it to the automobile level. Here's wishing just one city would try this.
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