Monorail Pro and Con
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I propose an additional reason to build a monorail along the Ventura Freeway instead of an extension of the Metro Rail line along the Burbank-Chandler corridor (“Developers’ Funds Back Monorail Committee,” Times Valley Edition, Aug. 17):
The Burbank-Chandler corridor could then be utilized as a full-fledged east-west bicycle-way and hybrid human-powered and electric vehicle corridor. That would lead, in time, to at least a couple of intersecting north-south bicycle-ways.
This could encourage the development of a new local light industry designing and manufacturing bicycles and perhaps more exotic 21st-Century vehicles such as hybrid electric motor-equipped bicycles, and even multi-person vehicles powered by two or more persons and solar-electric motors.
That would create new local jobs, export products, cleaner skies and the slower, softer lifestyle we’ll have to achieve for a sustainable and sane century.
GREGORY WRIGHT
Sherman Oaks
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