It has the best mono-thingy driver, ever.
Posted on 03/02/2006 5:02:56 PM PST by rellimpank
Travel Web site users to get ticket vouchers to boost sagging ridership
Customers of a travel Web site will be plied with free Las Vegas Monorail tickets as part of a new marketing partnership with the struggling rapid transit line that will be unveiled today.
Starting later this month, vegas.com will offer free vouchers for one-way monorail trips to the roughly 10,000 people a day who buy travel products through that site or other sites it runs, including lasvegas.com and espanol.vegas.com.
The vouchers can then be redeemed for a monorail pass at booths that will be set up at monorail stations and manned by vegas.com workers.
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The monorail in Shelbyville is doing great.
Anyone who has had to wait on a legendary Friday night Las Vegas cab line can tell you that the Las Vegas monorail will do much better when it is extended to the airport. Until then, it isn't of much value except maybe to people visiting the Convention Center. It's too expensive and not worth the price for a short trip - it's often cheaper for a group of people to take a cab.
I've always wondered why modern rail transit systems that are starting from scratch never make their first line a run from the airport to the commerce/business sector. That's the one line that makes absolute sense.
So far, I've not heard of any American rail system that started out that way.
Anyway, having been to Vegas, I do wonder why they didn't make the line run from the Strip to the airport to start with.
It has the best mono-thingy driver, ever.
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrified,
Six-car
Monorail! ...
What'd I say?
Monorail!
What's it called?
Monorail!
That's right! Monorail!
I hear those things are awfully loud...
It glides as softly as a cloud.
Is there a chance the track could break?
Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
What about us brain-dead slobs?
You'll all be given cushy jobs.
Were you sent here by the devil?
No, good sir, I'm on the level.
The ring came off my pudding can.
Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
Monorail!
What's it called?
Monorail!
Once again...
Monorail!
But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Mono... D'oh!
So is it safe to say that large chunks of metal are no longer falling off of the Vegas Monorail?
--yep--
heh heh, we rode the original version once years ago, that was before they expanded it.
The highlight was a young lady in an extreme miniskirt sitting across from us. She had an itch.
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