Lost Dreams : Monorail, Monorail, Monorail
Throughout the past half-century Southern California has had a fascination with monorails. In 1954, one was to connect Long Beach to Panorama City and in the 90’s there was one proposed to run down Interstate 101 Freeway, which was rumored to be the origins of the “Marge versus Monorail” Simpsons episode. At the same time, a monorail was proposed as part of Port Disney in the downtown waterfront. Though Disney went in another direction, the monorail took another decade to die. The monorail was to connect the Queen Mary to the First Street transit mall.
Throughout the past half-century Southern California has had a fascination with monorails. In 1954, one was to connect Long Beach to Panorama City and in the 90’s there was one proposed to run down Interstate 101 Freeway, which was rumored to be the origins of the “Marge versus Monorail” Simpsons episode. At the same time, a monorail was proposed as part of Port Disney in the downtown waterfront. Though Disney went in another direction, the monorail took another decade to die. The monorail was to connect the Queen Mary to the First Street transit mall.
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