So what brought an end to the Aerotrain?
During the contruction of the Aerotrain in Chula Vista, California, some of the mechanical engineers at Rohr joked about its design. Any good engineer will make improvements to a design to make it more efficient and cost less to manufacture and operate.
Afterall, the United States did not (and still does not) have the luxury of using fission plants to provide power for any kind of futuristic Aerotrain. It also did not have the money needed for any kind of Aerotrain infrastructure. Which meant no power plants to make the needed electricity to power the Aerotrain, no oil for the power plants to burn, and no monorail tracks. Thus, no Aerotrains. Just the price of building a raised monorail track to go from city to city was (and still is) enough to bankrupt a country. No one wanted to pay for a monorail. No one wanted a monorail eyesore going through their town or neighborhood. And since the monorail vibrated so loud before the even louder Aerotrain zoomed by, no one wanted any of it near their homes or offices.
http://www.shonner.com/aerotrain/index.htm
Cette dernière phrase me pose un problème... d'où viennent ces vibrations mentionnées et ce bruit si fort annoncé. Le rohr est pourtant électrique je ne comprend pas...
Les niveaux de bruit du I80 sont souvent mentionnés mais jamais ceux du Rohr et du S44. est-ce que vous les avez quelquepart ?
