Sydney Monorail Construction (1988)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- This Von Roll Transport Systems promotional video documents the beginnings of Sydney Monorail. 'A Ride Into The 21st Century' shows the design, construction, testing and opening of the now-dismantled downtown tourist loop monorail. While controversial to locals from day one, tourists always found the monorail to be fun and a great way to move about downtown. The controversial nature of the monorail, coupled with flaws with the layout and Von Roll technical aspects, ultimately resulted in the monorail's demise in 2013. Von Roll Transport Systems had ceased to exist years earlier after being purchased by Adtranz. The Sydney Monorail was Von Roll's first non-amusement urban monorail, yet it included a flawed single-tracked loop as featured on many amusement monorails. Monorail detractors use Sydney as an example of what's wrong with monorail, yet they ignore the dozens of successful non-tourist monorails operating around the world (see monorails.org).
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Would have been better if it linked up with central station and went down to circular quay as well. People might have thought about using it as a means to get around.
They thought it would cut traffic? Hahaha!! It didn't actually go anywhere
It ran in a circle to an exhibition center that was empty 50 percent of the time at best, and if you just wanted to go from darling harbour to the city, it was faster to walk there, I keep hearing a few use cases but lets face it, everyone says "I will miss it" followed by, " I rode it one time after it opened in 1988" lol
They should NEVER have torn it down.🤔
To be fair it was a tourist attraction not a solution for mass transit
Should never have been built and ended up costing the NSW taxpayers $18 million to tear it down.
they should have planned it differently so it would actually go somewhere instead of just looping around a small area.
I'm glad I decided to go for a ride on a whim in 2013 after not having ridden it since the late 80s.
One woman traveling in the same compartment as me was commenting to her friend what a great way it was to see Sydney, so people were still marveling at it towards the end!
I remember seeing women doing aerobics classes in up above street level. It really was a unique experience riding elevated one story above the street and the views it afforded.
Sydney's monsterail, went nowhere and did not connect with Central Station.
Thanks Barry O'Farrell!!!!!
I used the monorail almost 4 times a week to get from home (pyrmont) to the city (qvb) it took me 3 minutes. Now, even the planned tramline wont service my area. And when they bring in the trams and close George st, it will create more congestion
They should have extended the rail to loop up to circular quay, bought new cars and problem solved. It cost more to demolish than what it cost for the government to buy it
So sad to see it go
so stupid to have it removed big mistake
Agree!!! Big big mistake!!!
I’m trying to buy the remains of the Monorail and bring it back but it does the ame loop but from City Centre it goes up through Circular Key and back to Darling Park
I just got around to watching this video. Thanks for sharing! I didn't realize the Sydney Monorail was automated! When did this change, and why?
It is really too bad Sydney removed this city icon!
They only operated it in automated mode for a short while I believe. Because of technical issues, and Von Roll monorails are known for issues, during most of its existence there was a driver/attendant in the front cab.
Luke Starkenburg it was 2013
I miss the monorail
Being a small closed loop the monorail did next to nothing for traffic congestion. But sydney siders loved it including myself. Such a great way to see the city. Upset its gone.
Should have just extended it to central station.
Just like Malaysia, we have 3 of these von rolls.. 1 in Sunway Pyramid, 1 in genting highland and the final one at malacca looping around the morten village
Well, that's back in the days.. Now, all of them got scrapyard as their inefficiency in carrying passenger service
It is not lost on me, that the Independent MP who was most vocal about being against this monorail ended up as Sydney Lord Mayor right about the exact point in time the whole system was removed.
The future looked so bright I had to wear shades😎👌
Mate thank you for putting this on UA-cam its good to see how the monorail was been under construction its a shame that Sydney Monorail had to be closed down and when i went on the my very last ride last year on the 29th of June 2013 it was sad for me to go for one last time and i was really sad to see the Sydney monorail to go. where did you get the video of the Sydney monorail under construction? thanks again for putting this on you tube
Thanks Matt. Where did I get this? Von Roll in this case. I've headed up The Monorail Society for a quarter century now, as a result we have a considerable archive of monorail footage from various sources.
If only they spent ALL THAT monorail money funding a decent metro/subway system like the one we are finally getting now (in 2018). It would have been 100x more useful than the little-used tourist mover monorail.
Diden't you hear the part talking about how much more expensive a subway is?
@@Ham549 it would cost more but be much more uselful. the monorail shouldve connected to major transport hubs such as wynyard
They wanted to build a much better system but political arguments meant that the least useful route was chosen.
They should NEVER have ever pulled down the monorail,particularly as back then the population would've been half what is it now.😯
In 88 many people were against it's construction. It was a noisy tacky eyesore but Japanese tourists loved it according to an article I read, and Sydney was in the peak of Japanese tourism when it was completed, so It was good timing.
This is what they should have done: wait a few years to see how the monorail does. In this modern world, monorails are now becoming “the future” of trains. So if the kept it open, there would be a boom around the late 2010s and maybe in the 2020s (which is the current decade)
@@echonomad94 Even if Monorail is the future, we will have to built on from scrach, the one we had, with capacity of a bus, is not useful as public transport service even if they can extended it.
5:20
Modern for 1988 anyway! 😁👍🏻
Amiga 2000 at 7:19 - I wonder if these ended up being replaced at some stage
Great use of technology even back then in 1988..wow.
😯
All the effort and now it's gone not even 30 years in service-shame on the government who took it down!
Typical of Mike Baird. He's his father's son.
Thanks for sharing
ah, just saw the harbour side shopping centre, sad to see that go.
WHOA, PYRMONT BRIDGE ROTATES. I tripped out.
I am building a monarail layout in a small scale based around darling harbour in the 90's. This video was great insight. Thank you for your sharing.
This rocks
Nice bit of nostalgia but tearing it down was the right thing to do. It was intrusive, ugly, under used and increasingly costly to maintain. The world has well and truly moved away from monorails,
"The world has well and truly moved away from monorails" has it? Just because Sydney's monorail was stupid by design (a one way system is never going to make major impact) doesn't mean that having an elevated system like monorail is a thing of a past.
The world hasn't moved away at all. Many cities like Mumbai and Seattle have advanced latest monorail systems
@@user-rj8oj7bl2n Seattle's is a tourist attraction.
@xearther Dude it was replaced because the whole system needed to be replaced, and with such low patronage there was no point in doing so. Plus, the monorail never really went anywhere, as the places it was meant to go to were never built. Replacing it with Light Rail was an amazing choice, and Sydney has never looked so modern than now because of it.
I rode it four times, the last time in 2013 because it had been many many years since my last ride. It was fun seeing into 1st level windows. It was like another world above street level. It was high flat cost that was too discouraging.
Great video.
👍🏻👍🏻😊🙆♂️
Saw all the beams arrive at the scrap yard
Never properly realised and too slow, plus having worked in the city and hearing what sounded like a metal bin being violently pushed over my head everyday, yuk no thanks, glad its gone
It was futuristic and I like futuristic things, especially from the 1980s. But it doesnt look like it had enough carriages to take a large number of people in order to bring the price down. It should have been at least twice as long as it was.
Totally agree. The decision to destroy it and replace it with Light Rail was the smartest move ever.
@@YellowYT verdict is still out on the light rail.
@@ajs41 von rolls system was just too small to be used as an actual transport system. alwegs (includes hitachi and bombardier) is bigger and has more capacity.
Von roll monorail = zoo and safari shuttle
Doppelmayr cabletren= amusement parks shuttle
Mitsubishi crystal mover = residential connector
Innovia apm = airport shuttle
They shut down the monorail saying it did not go anywhere in the city loop and no one is talking about the Wollongong free shuttle bus that does a similar loop around Wollongong that the monorail did. This is your fault NSW. It would cost less to extend the monorail and get more cars. Von Roll still existed then (2013) and they still do.
why not extend the monorail to become a proper transport link?
Worked quite well in Kuala Lumpur. Sydney was too over priced.
From 2021 oh the first time i know monorail can walk with car tires
Yeah but not everyone lived within the monorails radius to take the ride so how could it ease congestion when everyone is trying to get into town
This thing is history and replaced by trams that stretched from Circular Quay to Kensington
Your monorail are only design for panoramic route... Not for transit... Only Alweg,Hitachi and Bombardier can be used as urban transport... Understand that
pretty much. the von rolls where just too small but had some uses inside a tight city. for longer distances and less limited spaces ofcourse the alweg systems (includes hitachi and Bombardier too) are far better, faster, more capacity etc.
@@SimonBauer7glad u knew and understand abt the system
This seemed like a good idea at the time.Shame they had to pull it down.
and a tunnel.
Aku berharap jogja segera bangun transportasi massal modern. Kalau dilihat dari lahan dan situasi dilapangan mungkin monorail yg paling cocok dibanding tram/mrt
Udh tutup monorail ini :/ mahal gk ada yng naik juga
Dari 2021 kenapa indonesia tidak menginginkan monorail sydney setelah di pensiun kan lumayan bisa hemat duit
1:38 I guess Darling harbour success did not depend on monorail though...
... why was it axed in the early 2010s?
It was axed for many reasons 1.because the government Barry,transport minister glades and mayor clover did not like the monorail. 2 so they could redevelop darling harbour.
It never turned a profit and the government wanted to redevelop the land. It also was considered an eyesore to some, and the track space could be used for something else. There was a Light Rail that paralleled it’s route with lower fares, and used the Octopus card used by the rest of Sydney’s transit.
It looks awesome, but it has always been an expensive and ineffective white elephant. The government paid more in cost overruns during construction than it would’ve cost them to build a much larger light rail network and operate it with free fares for years, and that network would be bidirectional, unlike the monorail.