I sometimes wonder if Doug Malewicki will ever be able to get his "SkyTran" system accepted and running somewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTran https:

I sometimes wonder if Doug Malewicki will ever be able to get his "SkyTran" system accepted and running somewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTran It seems like there's always a "we're going to try it here" phase, then it never goes further. The upsides sound great - basically personalized mass-transit, using individual pods on an overhead track system. The pods and track are lightweight, and can likely be put into tighter routes and areas than a full-sized train can go, as well as not disrupting traffic or whatnot when it is installed. It does have the whole "monorail" stigma to get around (which I don't really understand why or how "monorails" got the stigma - they have issues, certainly - but the whole meme seems to only have started since that Simpsons episode)...