Bye bye Monorail
 

The monorail in Sydney is going to be taken down it finishes on the last day of this month. Any fans had better hop on soon.

It will be sad to see it go

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Monorail? Where is that?

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around Darling harbour

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Springfield :lol:

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I always used it on my visits to Sydney.... Someone told me there is a better way to see central Sydney on a hop on hop of bus though, is that true ?

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Aaawwwwww I loved going on the monorail on my visits to Sydney :(

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It is nice for a tourist to take quick trip but was totally useless as a transport system.

Couldn't be extended or integrated to any other transport hub.

I much prefer the plans for an extended tram network, Sydney used to have more tram lines than Melbourne did!

Next year the tram extension will be opening out towards Dulwich Hill way and then it will head down to Circular Quay and eventually back out the the eastern burbs.

A proper tram network will be something many more people can utilise than a monorail tourist merry go round.

Sad to see it go but is the right decision.

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Wasn't it Ogdenville? :D


Glad to hear that it's going in Sydney, ugly underused thing IMO.

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That sounds more like a Shelbyville type of thing.

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my first thoughts too :)

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They are saying they won't replace it with a tram, they aren't sure what they will do but it won't be a tram!

Sounds like a typical thing tear something down but have nothing in place to replace it with :sneaky:

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Is there a tourist bus ? Other than that it's just that round the bay ferry, which doesn't help with the CBD.

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yes there is a tourist bus but its as unreliable as all get out or it used to be. Maybe they will make that better, I hope so

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The monorail will be dismantled not replaced, it's an ugly railtrack!. Theres a separate plan for trams nothing to do with the mono.

I'll take my last ride this weekend before it's gone 30 june.

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New plans:


http://youtu.be/WjtRllDqirg

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Btw, the Gold Coast Light Rail is progressing nicely:


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Nerang River

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I say hurray and good riddance! It didn't go anywhere sensible so useless for commuters and the ticket wasn't included in the multi tickets so it meant buying a seperate ticket every time. There was never anyone on it! Plus it cuts right across George St ruining the view down the street. I can't wait for it to go.

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Good bye ugly monorail. It will be amazing to have Trams running down George street again

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i liked the mono rail, used it the first time we went to sydney to take in the size, also the view from mono rail crossing darling harbor was good daytime and evening.
it was a bit of a weird layout though.

wow, light rail through surfers????

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I will go GC once mono is ok. Maybe commwelth games 18.

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Yes, will be great...check this out:


http://youtu.be/PdWn1gq6xRk

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They should re-site the monorail and run it between Circular Key and Darling Harbour. It could run past the soon-to-be-built casino hotel and provide a very handy transport link for tourists and locals.

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whens the goldcoast light rail due to be finished

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really is that what you think?

personally id say it taking forever and destroying many business`s into the bargain,


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPXEtjqp7hw


that coupled with a "why southport to broadbeach route" to me it dosnt make a lot of sense, surly nerang, robina or varsity rail station link into surfers broadbeach would have been better or a link from coolangatta airport into surfers via one of the above would have made more sense,
i just carnt see who could use this as say a route to work its going from one cbd to another via a mostly unpopulated route?

for a good example of light rail in an inner city they should have looked at what was done in manchester and followed there lead,

steve

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eventually or so they say

they keep publicly congratulating them selves on a job well done
so it must be good
mustent it??

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back on topic,

Sydney monorail
drove down to sydney to show a guest the sights two weeks back,
went around on the monorail twice it was rammed with people having a last ride