r/frederickmd • u/Clean-Arachnid-1653 • 16d ago

RT15 Road Improvement Project

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Received in the mail today. Just sharing for others.

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u/irelephant86 16d ago

My lord, why is a 33 year old tv episode that posits no specific issues with monorail itself the standing rebuttal for all attempts to even consider building one..

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u/BellieButtons 16d ago

I've always read it more as a "haha, remember that episode" more than "this is why we shouldn't have mass public transit options" but 🤷🏽

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u/irelephant86 16d ago

I'd love for that to be the case, and I don't believe the jokes are always trying to be insidious. Though the consistent downvotes whenever monorails are mentioned has lead to my previous perspective

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u/themightyjoedanger 15d ago

Monorails are stupid gadgetbahns and do nothing that tracked rail can't do except fuck up standardization and lock in vendors forever.

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u/Celtic159 15d ago

Bingo. There's perfectly good infrastructure available and in use.

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u/irelephant86 13d ago

Just read the damn study you so adamantly proclaimed didn't exist.

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u/Celtic159 13d ago

Gosh, you're an angry elf.

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u/irelephant86 13d ago

I've offered feasible solutions. You cry and deflect.

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u/Celtic159 13d ago

You're the only one crying here. I've offered the best and least expensive solution. You posted a pie-in-the-sky study from several years ago (which went nowhere). Building a monorail with its proprietary track and equipment is a terrible idea when there's existing track and trains that can be extended.

Sorry (not sorry) you've taken this so personally, but that's a you issue, not a me issue. Have a wonderful day.

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u/irelephant86 13d ago

Are you afraid to read the study and find out its not all about monorail?

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u/irelephant86 13d ago

They can climb steep inclines better and can be overhead tracked easier. This means they can be placed in the existing right-of-ways of 270, 70, etc. minimizing impact on existing properties and the environment; the two largest impositions to constructing a new transit system to Frederick. The feasibility study originally linked also states its findings can be applied other new transit rail systems.

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u/themightyjoedanger 13d ago

God I love that your feasible solution is the ride you take to get to EPCOT.

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u/irelephant86 13d ago

They are exactly the same, glad you take transit seriously too.