Why aren't there monorails in numerous American cities? Wayne Curtis explored
that question by visiting Las Vegas in 2005, shortly after Sin City opened its
single-track effort at mass transit -- a project he gave mixed reviews.
"Those of us who came of age making pilgrimages to Disney's Tomorrowland
know that monorails produce a complicated nostalgia for the future," he
wrote, concluding that "the monorail was twenty years ahead of its time,
and it has been mired there ever since."
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Why aren't there monorails in numerous American cities? Wayne Curtis explored that question by visiting Las Vegas in 2005, shortly after Sin City opened its single-track effort at mass transit.