Opening day for the new South Lake Union Streetcar is not a happy moment for Reinhard Krischer, keeper of the old Seattle monorail flame. He's still hoping for an extension of the 1962 Alweg line and still lamenting the failure of the Green Line in 2005. "All the safe, clever, and progressive advantages of elevated transit in the form of space-saving monorail technology were forgotten," Krischer writes in
Monorail hugger rains on the Streetcar parade
Opening day for the new South Lake Union Streetcar is not a happy moment for Reinhard Krischer, keeper of the old Seattle monorail flame. He's still hoping for an extension of the 1962 Alweg line and still lamenting the failure of the Green Line in 2005.
"All the safe, clever, and progressive advantages of elevated transit in the form of space-saving monorail technology were forgotten," Krischer writes in The Alweg Archives.
Opening day for the new South Lake Union Streetcar is not a happy moment for Reinhard Krischer, keeper of the old Seattle monorail flame. He's still hoping for an extension of the 1962 Alweg line and still lamenting the failure of the Green Line in 2005.
"All the safe, clever, and progressive advantages of elevated transit in the form of space-saving monorail technology were forgotten," Krischer writes in The Alweg Archives.
