Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Monorail

Seattle Center Monorail
Category: Public Transportation
Neighborhood: Queen Anne
7/3/2007
A joke...a hideous remnant of the World's Fair of 1962, massive concrete, clumsy, obstructing Fifth Avenue (west of Pine St.) and with its sheer bulk throwing the otherwise pleasant street into deep shadow.

Tear it down, please, ASAP.

It goes nowhere. Why would anyone, including a tourist, want to wait half an hour in line to take something that goes 1/2 mile??

If it's meant to show how benighted our sense of urban aesthetics is, then it's a winner. Furthermore, it is NOT a technological cutting marvel (not since 1962) and has been superseded around the world.

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