monorail
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The decision comes after years of often bitter debate between theme park operator Flamingo Land and people living in the area who campaigned against the plan to build a waterpark, monorail, hotel and restaurants.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
Lyster said the possibility of expanding the Disneyland monorail has not come up in “recent discussions,” since the newer options might turn out to be environmentally friendlier and less costly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Bob Gurr, the designer of the monorail, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Haunted Mansion ‘doom buggies’ and more, isn’t slowing down.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
Gurr recalls one day in which he was working on a half-built monorail train in a soundstage and was paid a visit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Lenina, meanw hile, had turned her eyes away and was looking perpendicularly downwards at the monorail station.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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Gurr’s defining Disney creations — the sci-fi-inspired monorails of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, the first implementation of a tubular steel coaster in the Matterhorn — are just a small fraction of his résumé.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Most U.S. monorails run in short loops around amusement parks or between airport terminals.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
Long winters, home and hearth, wrap up snugly: the decor of the future that’s already with us is not soaring megastructures, holidays on the moon, monorails and geodesic domes.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016
Still, attention overwhelmingly turned to single-mode PRT and more traditional automated "people movers" like monorails.
From The Verge ● Feb. 24, 2016
The streets were narrow and filled with monorails; pedestrians pursued their courses upon walks attached to the walls of the buildings, far above the level of the streets.
From Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
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mon, mono (one)
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