Boston MBTA monorail plan, 1972 pilipino_art 1865 was a happy time

1865 was a happy time for Boston

while keeping the same basic shape as its predecessor the 1918 subway plan

I vowed to create my own subway map

the Toronto Subway was meant to be a mix of streetcar tunnel and subway

or why monorails just don’t work

Boston MBTA monorail plan, 1972 pilipino_art 1865 was a happy timeThis map is based on the Boston Personal Rapid Transit plan of the 1970s. Personal Rapid Transit is a smaller scale version of the people mover technology that you see at airports instead of individual cars that can fit 70 80 people, PRT cars can fit 7 20 people. This, theoretically, should reduce construction costs, but the technology never became popular and only a few exist in the world today. Boston's proposal would have used PRT line to cover the