AHC: The Washington D.C. Monorail

Japhy

Banned
As the Challenge says on the Tin, With a POD no earlier then say 1950 have the United States Capitol use for its public transportation system, a monorail.

Go and develop the means!
 
I'd prefer something a bit more realistic then that work.

That's an odd thing to say. There's nothing ASB about that timeline. Dark as hell, but it develops logically.

And yes, one would expect President Disney to push for Washington DC to be a testbed for his pet ideas. A DC Monorail would be right up there with the space program.
 

Japhy

Banned
That's an odd thing to say. There's nothing ASB about that timeline. Dark as hell, but it develops logically.

And yes, one would expect President Disney to push for Washington DC to be a testbed for his pet ideas. A DC Monorail would be right up there with the space program.

No, it's not that logical, and is patently ridiculous from the POD to the most recent updates where Nachos has African Americans fleeing to the Soviet Union. What it is, is a pop cultural dream secession and not just dark as hell, but ridiculously dark for the sake of it being ridiculously dark.

So no, President Walt Disney is not really decent way to achieve anything because the guy who's main character was already a synonym for shoddy is not getting elected in 1952, 56 or any other time.
 
A big problem in getting a monorail in any big city in the US not associated with Disney is that, by your PoD, cars were king. The ALWEG proposal for LA, the only serious one in the 60s, was basically turned down in favor of nothing.

If you poo-poo AWOLAWOT, then there's pretty much no chance.

On the other hand, that one likely gives us as close as you're going to get to a system limited to the Capitol (or even the capital) - a monorail loop or line on the National Mall that's as much of a tourist attraction in and of itself as it is a transport system.
 
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