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A Genuine, Bonafide, Non-Electrified Monorail! (episode 133)
A Genuine, Bonafide, Non-Electrified Monorail! (episode 133)
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32 minutes
Released:
May 19, 2019
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You may think taking the T is painful today, but back in the days of horsedrawn streetcars, public transportation was slow, inefficient, and frequently snarled in downtown traffic. In the 1880s, proposals for elevated railways and subways competed for attention as Boston’s rapid transit solution. Then, an ambitious inventor stormed the scene with a groundbreaking proposal for a monorail. He even went as far as building a mile long track in East Cambridge, showing that the monorail worked. If it hadn’t been for bad luck and bad politics, we might all be taking monorails instead of today’s Red and Orange lines, but instead the monorail turned out to be more of a Shelbyville idea.
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/133
Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory
Released:
May 19, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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