monorail
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Wants to Expand Its Lacklustre Vegas Tunnel Project
After Elon Musk’s Boring Company received approval to construct one-lane tunnels in the bowels of Las Vegas last year, the company has recently submitted plans for an expansion that will bring a total of 105 kilometres of crisscrossing tunnels beneath the Nevada city.
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Meet The Guy In The U.S. Who Bought A Monorail For $1000
In 2015, Gabe Emerson called up the Minnesota Zoo and asked to buy their monorail. It had been decommissioned two years prior and the zoo, apparently, didn’t know what to do with it. They had listed it for auction on what Emerson describes as “some obscure state surplus auction website” and were out of ideas.…
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Final Flight Of The Sydney Monorail: An Ode To A Troubled City Icon
Once, when I was a boy, my parents decided to take my sister and I into the city for a day trip. We lived a few hours north, so travelling into the heart of Sydney was a rare treat. Dad worked in Sydney so coming in on his weekend wasn’t something we really ever did.…
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Sydney’s Monorail Gets Ticket To History
Yesterday, NSW Premier, Barry O’Farrell confirmed the government had bought Metro Transport (owners of Sydney’s light rail network and monorail) and planned to tear down the latter “as soon as feasible”. In reality, that could be a year or two away, but Giz will kind of miss the 24-year old institution when it goes, even…