In 1903, an overhead monorail transit system was completed in Wuppertal, Germany, an industrial town in the Ruhr Valley. The Schwebebahn monorail has been recently restored, with all new carriages and control sytems. It carries 20,000 passengers per day, and is the main mode of transit for the people of Wuppertal. Most of the monorail is suspended over the river that passes through town. The Schwebebahn is elegant, efficient, smooth, comfortable and perfectly quiet.
Why don’t more cities adopt this obviously wonderful transit solution?