Dave
TS Founding Member
Just a point on the falling onto the track monorail versus railway station. Although you don’t want it to happen in either scenario, at a railway station so long as there isn’t a train coming you have a 4 foot drop on to relatively flat surfaces. The drop on the towers monorail platform is closer to 8ft and you will probably hit the beam on you way down. It’s not really comparable.
Pretty much every other week a diesel lorry catches fire on the M62, yet we all happily get into diesel vehicles. This obsession with electric vehicles catching fire is weird, yes it happens but to no greater extent than ICE vehicles. Fact is however you store and transfer energy into motion there is a risk of fire.
Here's a reason to not use EV buses. And it's at a theme park too. Admittedly, this was probably due to the extreme Floridian heat but based on what we've had this summer and could start getting in future summers, are EV buses in their current form something Towers would want to invest in given that in extreme heat they'd probably have to stop using them to keep them cool? The guy in the video even asks why Universal don't install a people mover/monorail as they're much safer!
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HahhrLWZBKE
Pretty much every other week a diesel lorry catches fire on the M62, yet we all happily get into diesel vehicles. This obsession with electric vehicles catching fire is weird, yes it happens but to no greater extent than ICE vehicles. Fact is however you store and transfer energy into motion there is a risk of fire.