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November 27, 2005

Alweg Monorail: Hosed

Monorail AccidentOne other, marathon-related fact: the historic Alweg Monorail that connects downtown and Seattle Center is totally out of action as of last night. The two cars smashed in to one another yesterday evening, thus fusing the two together and causing the blue one to list. Marathon participants (who were staying at the Westin, about 1 mile from the start line) were originally planning to use the monorail to get to the start.

The photo you're seeing was taken by Yours Truly as I walked down 5th Avenue this morning.

The Times has a bit on it ("Monorail trains collide") with some of the facts:

The crash at about 7:10 p.m. sent glass flying to the street. It took nearly an hour to evacuate the 84 passengers on board the two trains. Firefighters escorted them individually down fire-truck ladders extended to the trains about 25 feet above the sidewalk.

There were no serious injuries, but two people were taken to the hospital to be checked out, said Helen Fitzpatrick, spokeswoman for Seattle Fire Department.

(Boy, when we say "no monorail" in this town, the universe listens, huh?)

Posted by Gavin Shearer at November 27, 2005 5:36 PM. Posted to Politics | Transit.

Comments

Great photo, man! Way the show the whole world Seattle's monorail greatness. We need one of those on every corner!!

Seriously though, how on earth does such a thing happen? Did the driver of one train swerve to avoid hitting a cute bunny? Or did Seattle actually build a monorail with two separate tracks that allow the trains to touch??!

No wonder citizens voted for the monorail, for the monorail, against the monorail, for the monorail, err... against the monorail.

Posted by: purple Author Profile Page at November 29, 2005 2:42 PM

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