Monorail

[Axtremus]

Nice!

[89th]

I was hoping for a monorail kitteh

[LuFins Dad]

And DC can’t even run their Metro without a couple of accidents per year.

[Mik]

That had better work every time.

[George K]

@Mik said in Monorail:

That had better work every time.

I thought the same thing, but it looks like there's someone in the cab just in case.

[Axtremus]

Japan’s railway safety record, statistics:
https://www.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/statistics_rail.html

Older (2011) comparative rail safety study:
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2011/06/02/comparative-rail-safety/

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Monorail:

Older (2011) comparative rail safety study:

One thing that we see a fair amount of in the US is pedestrian/vehicle train interaction.

Crashes involving only freight trains are ignored, and pedestrians and car and bus passengers struck by passenger trains are included.

My little town has had at least 4 fatalities in the last 12 years, and one of them was suicide-by-train. The US needs to have better crossing protection (4 way gates). I would also guess that China and Japan have a much newer infrastructure than the US which leads to safety. My town is on the BNSF "raceway." We have at least 12 commuter trains, and at least 10 Amtrak passenger trains going through every day. And then there are the freights, carrying oil from the North Dakota fields to the BNSF yards in Cicero where it is shuffled off. I would guess at least 50 trains a day, and the crossings are woefully unprotected.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Monorail:

@Mik said in Monorail:

That had better work every time.

I thought the same thing, but it looks like there's someone in the cab just in case.

Some of those trains were within 1 second of the track switch. What the hell is somebody in he can going to do if it doesn’t switch?

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Monorail:

Some of those trains were within 1 second of the track switch. What the hell is somebody in he can going to do if it doesn’t switch?

It looks like the video is at least 3X speed. Look at the autos on the left side of the screen.

Can you stop a monorail in 3 seconds? I have no idea.

Another, more real-time video:

Link to video

[Copper]

@LuFins-Dad said in Monorail:

What the hell is somebody in he can going to do if it doesn’t switch?

The engineers accept a little risk.

There are more Japanese where those came from.

Just keep moving.

[taiwan_girl]

Somewhat related, but I one time took the bullet train from Tokyo to Okayama. I really expected there to be a sensation of speed but did not feel very fast at all.

[Jolly]

Clever, those Japanese.