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	Kitakyushu monorail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kitakyushu monorail in party mood at New Year, 2005
		The Kitakyushu monorail is run by the 北九州高速鉄道株式会社, (Kitakyushu Kosoku Kabushiki gaisha) known in English as the Kitakyushu Urban Monorail Co. Ltd.
		The monorail is owned by Kitakyushu city, and did not begin to make a profit until the extension to Kokura station was completed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kitakyushu_monorail (232 words)

	Kitakyushu, Fukuoka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kitakyushu is now the most advanced city in Japan with regard to pollution control and recycling technology.
		The Kitakyushu Renaissance [1] project began in December 1988 and is to finish in 2006.
		A new 24-hour offshore international airport (New Kitakyushu Airport) is being built on an artificial island in the South of the city in the Seto Inland Sea to replace the present Kitakyushu Airport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kitakyushu (1663 words)

	Freeway\|Monorail - Regional transit standards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the criticisms of monorail technology is the naive perception that it does not have sufficient capacity.
		Monorail systems can utilize smaller vehicles without losing capacity by running very frequently, with the wait between trains as little as a minute and a half.
		Mass transit monorail to be capable to perform the heavy duty capacity equivalent to the conventional subway system.
	www.freewaymonorail.org /capacity.htm (942 words)

	Not just for Disneyland anymore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We began the journey with the belief that monorails are appropriate for Seattle and returned convinced of that fact.
		The Kitakyushu Monorail was an especially enjoyable ride because of the spectacular scenery visible out the windows throughout the trip.
		One myth about monorails is that it is impossible to have multiple routes, with multiple tracks, because the technology does not exist to switch trains from one track to another.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/45184_monorailop.shtml (1348 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kitakyushu still suffers from the unfortunate image and reputation - both domestically and overseas - of an industrial and heavily polluted city with many smokestacks, which it indeed was back in the 1960s when it was a major engine of the Japanese economy.
		Kitakyushu has an international conference centre and is very active in holding and hosting international conferences of various kinds.
		Kitakyushu is the largest ferry port in Western Japan.
	snetinformation.info /index.php?title=Kitakyushu,_Fukuoka (1143 words)

	Kitakyushu - Wikitravel
		Kitakyushu was created in 1963 from the five smaller cities of Kokura (小倉), Moji (門司), Tobata (戸畑), Wakamatsu (若松) and Yahata (八幡), and it retains this sense of being a country area with much diversity and beautiful nature, despite its reputation as a steel town.
		Kokura, the heart of Kitakyushu, is an ancient feudal castle town guarding the Straits of Shimonoseki.
		Kitakyushu Airport is scheduled to be replaced by the much larger 24-hour New Kitakyushu Airport (新北九州空港 Shin Kitakyūshū Kūkō) that is being built on reclaimed land offshore in Suo nada, the most westerly part of the Seto Inland Sea and is due to open on March 16, 2006.
	wikitravel.org /en/Kitakyushu (1978 words)

	Monorail Capital Costs: Reality Check
		In regard to monorail systems, it can be seen that, with an average capital cost of nearly $140 million per mile, and with some individual systems exceeding $200 million per mile, these examples of monorail systems do not seem to corroborate the low-cost claims of many monorail promoters.
		Monorail advocates often argue that the ostensibly simpler beam guideways (beamways) for monorails may, on average, cost less than the support deck and trackage for an elevated dual-steel-rail system (which requires the addition of rail structure above the beamways).
		For example, monorail switches appear to entail more complicated machinery, and have a significantly higher cost – about 15 times the cost of an ordinary railway switch, according to a recent study.
	www.lightrailnow.org /myths/m_monorail001.htm (1104 words)

	Monorail News Briefs
		Monorail opponents were suddenly armed with the weaponry they needed to kill the project.
		Monorail officials hosted a small recognition ceremony and presented Savoia with a lifetime pass on the Monorail along with two-night future stay at the Sahara Hotel and several show tickets.
		Monorail proponents were quick to react to the suspicious timing of the consultant report’s release and its findings.
	www.monorails.org /tMspages/News.html (3979 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Practical considerations have limited monorails to special-purpose applications, where surface right-of-way is not available and traffic is not sufficient to justify full-scale rail lines, either in tunnel or on viaduct.
		Monorail operating statistics for the 2003 fiscal year are presented in Table 1.
		The third stage of monorail development, the gradual application of these two "standard" configurations, began during the mid-1980s.
	www.publictransit.us /ptlibrary/specialreports/sr9.JapanMonorails.htm (1230 words)

	Monorail?! - 2Bangkok.com Forum
		KL Monorail actually took 6 years to complete (1997-2003), but that was mostly because of the financial crisis -- work was stopped completely for several years.
		The reason I don't want monorails in Bangkok is that it's too late: there are two other systems installed already and it makes no sense to install a third one.
		In term of commercial, monorail is the cheapest among LRT and subway, even with the same capacity.
	www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?p=1749 (1755 words)

	Sumitomo Group Public Affairs Committee
		The City of Kitakyushu has a population of one million and was formed in 1963 through the merging of five cities.
		The Kitakyushu airport is 30 minutes from the station by car, and access to Fukuoka airport is facilitated by the Kyushu Expressway and an expressway that passes through the city.
		As an international convention center, Kitakyushu's infrastructure also includes the Kitakyushu International Conference Center, located between the north entrance of Kokura Station and the ocean, and the West Japan General Exhibition Center, with 15,000 square meters of exhibition space.
	www.sumitomo.gr.jp /english/discoveries/town/kyusyu01.html (314 words)

	DJC.COM: Monorail group seeks public comment, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
		A monorail system is above the traffic and does not have to content with the problems of congested downtown and residentual streets.
		While monorail may prove to be a good point to point transportation line, slow switching mechanisms will forever doom it from becoming a regional "system".
		The tunnel to the UW is a boondoggle that should not be built, and monorail should serve the corridor instead.
	www.djc.com /news/ae/11122055.html (1399 words)

	Japanese Transit Profitability – No Monopoly for Monorails
		Monorail advocates frequently make extravagant assertions about the supposedly exceptional "profitability" of monorail systems, particularly compared to light rail transit (LRT) and other standard rail transit systems.
		Zealous monorail supporters have been known to make claims such as "the only public transportation systems in the world being run for profit are monorail systems." This, it's argued, should be considered "evidence of superior technology."
		It should be noted that, particularly in Japan – where traffic volumes are high, transport by automobile is less encouraged than in North America, and public transport is encouraged through government policies – a number of rail passenger modes, including LRT (light rail), report operating profits.
	www.lightrailnow.org /myths/m_monorail005.htm (565 words)

	dscn0623a
		Kitakyushu city, Japan, has a monorail running through it.
		For most of the length of the monorail there is a road.
		This is near the end of the monorail, on the edge of Kitakyushu city.
	www.freewebs.com /shatov/photos/infrared/slides/dscn0623a.htm (43 words)

	New Solution for Urban Traffic: Small-Type Monorail System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Monorail trains with rubber tires are environmentally friendly and produce little noise and vibration.
		Thus, the monorail system in Japan is an effective solution to environmental problems and traffic congestion in urban cities, which also stimulates local economy.
		The demand for urban monorail systems has recently begun to come from smaller local cities where the daily ridership is much lower than that in Tokyo, Osaka, Kitakyushu, and other major cities in Japan.
	www.pubs.asce.org /WWWdisplay.cgi?0510752 (313 words)

	Monorail News: 2005-01-30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bombardier team that dropped out of the competition for Seattle’s new monorail last year has asked the public owner to reopen the bidding process, as negotiations drag on with the lone bidder for the $1.6 billion Green Line.
		The monorail is back up and running after a power problem brought it to a stand still Wednesday morning.
		The other, more positive vision of a monorail is to be found in the 1993 cult classic Singles, a page out of Seattle's own pop-cultural history.
	www.monorailnews.com /archive/2005_01_30_index.html (334 words)

	Monorail switch information as applied to urban mass transit systems
		Here at the Monorail Society, we continue to be surprised by the amount of "rail experts" that don't have a clue when it comes to the subject.
		Probably the best way to argue that monorail switches work is to let you know where they are and briefly explain the importance of them.
		Tampa's Bombardier UM III monorail system is a pinched loop with two switches for direction reversal.
	faculty.washington.edu /~jbs/itrans/switch.htm (1037 words)

	The History of Hitachi-Alweg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hitachis first monorail line was put in service in March, 1962, and is known as the Inuyama Rhine Park monorail.
		For the monorail this an ominous picture because it very clearly illustrates that the Haneda Line, ingenious as it may be, is one of those special situation lines where monorail offers the most practical solution.
		Since then the drive units, the classic monorail bogies, are arranged completely below the floor-line of the cars and no longer protrude into the interior of the cars, thus eliminating the classic Alweg wheel case (bogey casing).
	www.alweg.com /pages/424731 (1207 words)

	Kitakyushu
		After the Tokyo system was built, the Japanese Monorail Association was formed and it established standards for both straddle and suspended monorails in Japan.
		One of the new standards for straddle monorails was that passenger cabins must be entirely above the bogies, which allows a flat floor from the front of the train to the rear.
		What sets this monorail apart from the earlier Japanese lines is the liberal dose of landscaping along the road mediums below the guideway.
	www.monorails.org /tMspages/Kitakyu.html (254 words)

	Kitakyushu LRT and monorail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kitakyushu, home to just over 1 million souls, is the result of combining five different cities about 31 years ago, the most famous of which is Kokura.
		It is the home to a world class amusement park known as "Space World", where you can even sign up for a three day "space camp".
		The "Kokura Line" is just one of three urban monorail lines planned for the Kitakyushu.
	www.subways.net /japan/kitakyushu.htm (172 words)

	Monorails of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Scores of monorails are currently in daily service, quickly and quietly moving people to their destinations in many countries around the world.
		Monorail has a strong and growing history as a dependable transit technology stretching back to the still operating Wuppertal suspended monorail built in 1901.
		In North America, monorails have had a harder time shedding their theme park image after Disneyland installed a monorail in 1959.
	www.elevated.org /project/faq/faq.asp?faqid=32 (518 words)

	Team Monorail concept vs. Cascadia hardware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Given the city's rejection of the monorail proposal, "we're going to be vocally upset about the hypocrisy of our leaders if (a new system) doesn't meet the standards (they) said it should meet" for the monorail.
		The monorail itself was slated to serve 42,000 riders a day by 2010 (57,000 by 2030), with trains arriving at stations every six minutes.
		Still, I was shocked when politicians reacted to the monorail plan like it was an attack on them personally, on their collective boner for light rail, on everything they had done, or failed to do, about Seattle's transportation problem in the past.
	www.monorail.org /discussions/2005/01/21/4 (3020 words)

	disney world - INTERCOT walt disney world information guide - discussion boards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I was looking at the monorail tracks and noticed that right when the monorail track is going towards the contempoary, there is another track that turns past tomorrowland and north of MK, When the track ends it leads into this weird building.
		A monorail expansion is always everyone's first wish, due to the novelty and history that this unique transportation method has with the Walt Disney Company.
		In addition to expanding the monorail system, options for additional boat service, bus service, a light-rail system, and even an ultra-futuristic customizable mass-transit system similar to this one and this one were all considered and in the mix.
	www.intercot.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=31457&page=2 (3889 words)

	2Bangkok.com Forum - Monorail?!
		Nevertheless, Monorail is good for feeder lines for the sections which have less passengers than the main TRUNK lines along Phaholyothin Road, Phetkasem road, and Sukhumvit Road.
		Furthermore, KL Monorail are supposed to be extended to Mid Valley Mall (Abdullah Hukum) and OUG....
		The via duct whcih connect KL Sentral Station of KL Monorail with KL Sentral of KTMB has to be insteall very soon so that we don't have get soaked up while interchanging with the system when it is raining...
	www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/printthread.php?t=392&pp=40 (3186 words)

	Atlanta
		The Monorails selected as 'representative' Monorail systems by the Cap Metro study are three of the most expensive Monorail systems either planned or operating and are not representative of typical Monorail capital construction costs.
		The 36-car monorail fleet, to be operated in nine four-car trains, will provide direct service to eight major resort properties and the Las Vegas convention centre...Bombardier, as a member of a consortium, will be responsible for the electrical and mechanical systems of the fully automated monorail line, including 36 M-VI monorail cars.
		Seattle's new Monorail system is being planned by the Elevated Transportation Company (ETC), an entity created and empowered by the people of Seattle through their Initiative 53.
	www.austinmonorail.org /what_cap_metro_is_not_telling_you_about_costs.htm (2525 words)

	T Watch - Dec 21, 03 \| 9:07 am (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There’s also the Seattle Monorail, a well-functioning system, which travels at 50mph and at least one monorail in Tokyo that regularly operates at 60mph.
		Monorails are great for tightly-packed urban settings (like downtown Boston) and have obvious benefit, but they're unsuitable for the long distances proposed.
		My thought would be to make the Silver Line monorail, or at least similar to what they offer in Montreal (rubber tired trains on their own guide path, with appropriate clearance for trucks to duck under).
	www.badtransit.com /twatch_more.php?id=727_0_2_0_C (549 words)

	SENATOR RAYMOND LAVIGNE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is because political decision makers are grappling with increased urbanization and the resulting increase in traffic congestion.
		Monorail advocates include Miami and Detroit, two cities that have extensive monorail transit systems in their downtown core.
		Japan is the world leader in monorail technology and use, with eight monorail systems, many branch lines and sophisticated new Skyline hybrid systems.
	www.sen.parl.gc.ca /rlavigne/Text_monorail1.htm (141 words)

	Thoroughness steers the project
		Our effort has involved the preparation of technical analyses by professionals, including fire/life safety professionals, with years of mass transit experience, and the preparation of hundreds of technical documents that will support our proposal.
		Specific monorail projects include the Chongqing, Tokyo Monorail, Kitakyushu Monorail, Osaka Monorail, Tama Monorail and the Okinawa Urban Monorail as well as the guideway for the monorail at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
		Finally, as veterans of the DBOM process, we feel that the public in Seattle has a right to know that the successful contractor will be at risk to guarantee the Green Line's cost, schedule and operational performance.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/176082_cascadia03.html (580 words)

	The Stranger - News - In Other News... - In Other News... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Three members of the Elevated Transportation Company, the organization responsible for planning and building the voter-approved monorail, are headed to Japan this week to study working monorail systems.
		The group, including Wright Runstad real-estate big shot Joel Horn and the author of the original monorail initiative, Peter Sherwin, are touring Tokyo, Kitakyushu, Tokuyama, and Hiroshima to meet with city officials and learn more about monorail technology.
		In other monorail news, public meetings to help design the monorail system start this Thursday, 6:00 p.m., at Town Hall.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=8961 (388 words)

	Freeway\|Monorail -- Monorails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While the technology is most known for its use in private amusement and wildlife parks, examples of monorail systems also can be found in urban areas such as Tokyo and Sydney.
		Here are some examples of monorail systems currently operating or under construction around the world.
		Freewaymonorail is a grassroots organization advocating a common-sense alternative to Sound Transit's light rail plan.
	www.freewaymonorail.org /monorails.htm (107 words)

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