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Informed but opinionated commentary and analysis on urban transportation topics from the Secret Worldwide Transit Cabal. Names have been omitted to protect the guilty. Our Mission: Monkeywrench the Anti-Transit Forces
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Thursday, March 20, 2003
Some things get lost in translation... "It is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous to be subject to ridicule." James Howard Kunstler "Truth passes through three phases: 1) It is ridiculed. 2) It is violently opposed. 3) It is accepted as self-evident." Albert Schopenhouer. In the United States, rail is currently passing through Phase Two. From the Cabalmaster: Some things get lost in translation... If you do a websearch using "Dubai" and "Monorail" as keywords, you will get several hundred hits, for example www.monorails.org/tMspages/archive111902.html. (Dubai, as intrepid websurfers know, is a Persian Gulf sheikhdom and a component of the United Arab Emirates.) Paraphrasing an FOC's quote from another FOC: "Every monorail enthusiast, manufacturer and consultant has descended on Dubai." There's only one problem: there is no monorail project in Dubai. The Arabic term for "elevated light rail railway" was translated by an English-language newspaper as "monorail" . . . and the rush was on! We have it on very good authority that Dubai originally planned surface light rail transit, but vehicular traffic and local decisions led to plans for a fully-separated, mostly-elevated alignment. The project is now described as a "light metro." For details, see: www.khaleejtimes.co.ae/ktarchive/020702/uae.htm#story17 www.railjournal.com/latenews.html For a map, by Japanese transportation scholar Osamu Abe, see osamuabe.infoseek.livedoor.com/subway/mappage/constmap/dubai.jpg We Opinionated Ones wonder how long we'll have to wait to see a correction on the Monorail Society webpage . . . We Opinionated Ones also wonder if the Bush Administration will force Bagdad to install "bus rapid transit" (sic) rather than the subway under construction before the war. . .
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