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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1963 Tokyo Starts Construction of World's First Monorail Network r EKgn4ir Cj r -t J i II aaiaaaaaPPPpilil -"eS . , "Wfi ,"J application for an urban rail road line has closed. A new, radical transit sys tem was needed. Monorail seemed to provide some of the answers without adding new problems. The proposed lines will run over or along side existing roads, highways and rail lines. Downtown to Airport The airport monorail, ex pected to cost about $28 mil lion will whisk passengers and luggage non-stop between downtown and the airport in 13 minutes - a fraction of the 30 to 90 minutes (depending on traffic) it takes to make the 16-mile trip (in actual road milage) by cab or limou sine. Fares will be about S1.75 each way, about half the limousine fare. The line will not follow the entire route to the airport. It will run over water for about two miles along the shoreline of reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay, then over two rivers and under a third river, surfacing next to the airport terminal. Once the airport line goes into operation, monorail men and transit officials say, monorail will win public ac ceptance as an efficient means of mass transit, instead of an amusement park attraction. Monorail will snowball, they say. None Oppose Monorail Transit officials report no opposition to monorail from private companies operating the urban and interurban trains. In fact, much of the capital to build the airport and other monorail lines is being supplied by many of these same companies because they feel monorail will take the excess load off railroads, not replace them. Railroads will still carry the bulk of freight, although some monorail operators are thinking of using the cars dur ing slack hours to carry con tainerized cargo. Monorail inevitably will cut into other modes of trans portation, however, though the day seems far off to To kyo's battered commuters. Tokyo is one of the new big cities in the world which have clung to their quaint, traffic snarling trolley cars-because to eliminate them would place an added burden on other transit systems. Monorail is expected to hasten the end of the trolley. Most of the pro posed monorail lines follow streetcar routes. Monorail Cleaner Subway travel may also slacken off because monorail will be cleaner and airier. It could slacken to half the present crush and still play to standing room only at rush hour. Transit officials say mono rail will be safer than rail roads, in one respect. In Ja pan last year, 11 persons were killed on the average each day in railroad crossing acci dents - the highest accident rate in the world. There will be no crossing on monorails. The proposed lines will be privately operated, a 1 though officials of the Japan National Railways, a public corpora tion which runs more than half the trains in Japan, said JNR might step in if private operation proves inadequate. To provide monorail sys tems for domestic use and for export, several Japanese firms have formed technical tieups with foreign compa nies, including Lockheed Air craft Corp. of the United States, Safege of France, and Alwcg of Germany, which is building the airport line. Several Styles On the NihoivLockheed and Hitachi - Alwcg systems, pas sengers ride in cars that strad dle a concrete and steel rail supported by pillars. Safege cars are suspended from the rail. Each Ninon-Lockheed car travels on 16 steel and rubber flanged wheels, four along the top of the rail and six on each side for stabilization. The Hitachi - Alwcg and the sus pended Safege cars travel on (or under) carriages support ed by pneumatic (air-filled) tires, like car wheels. All three systems claim low construction and opera ting costs, fast "safe" speeds (from SO to 60 miles an hour with potential speeds of more than 90 mph), light car weight, maximum passenger comfort and safety, and smooth, and near-noiseless rides. The systems are not Inter changeable. Each requires its own special type of rail. The ministry of transporta tion has approved all three types, but the feeling is that the monorail industry will eventually adopt one stand ardized system, incorporating the best of these and other types. 100 Items Planned For Crater Lions Television Sale More than 100 items, rang ing from choice steaks to the bar becue or rotisscrie on which to cook them, will be offered the public Sunday afternoon in the ninth benefit auction to be sponsored by the Crater Lions club. The auctioneers and their products will be seen on KBES-TV Channel 5 from noon to 2 p.m. A diving pool for Jackson park is the project for which the Crater Lions will be rais ing money. The Lions are to make the "down payment" on the diving pool, which was originally included in the Jackson park development, Robert Haworth, director of the city recreation depart ment, explained. Help From Club "Without the help of the Crater Lions we could not consider going ahead with this necessary part of the total compound," Haworth said. "If the auction is success ful, and we arc sure that it will be just as those sponsored in the past have been, we feel we can have the facility ready TOKYO TRAFFIC LIGHTS Four sets of tri-colored lights suspended from a traffic control tower are used to handle ever-increasing traffic in the world's largest city. Tokyo may soon have the world's first ex tensive monrail network. It is expected to be completed before 1964 Olympics. (UPI) - By WILLIAM F. WRIGHT United Press International Tokyo - (UPD - The world's ; first extensive monorail net work may soon crisscross the world's largest and most con gested city, turning it into a futuristic metropolis where commuters are whisked across town at treetop level in a mat ter of minutes. Other great cities, such as London, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Ma nila and even Lagos, Nigeria, have expressed interest in monorails, and at least two -Turin, Italy, and Seattle, Wash., already have mono rails operating commercially. But none of these cities is as close as Tokyo is to adopt ing the monorail for mass ur ban transportation. Tokyo Is First Construction already has begun on an eight-mile mono rail between downtown To kyo and Tokyo International airport; the line is expected to be completed before the is expected to begin within the next two years on 11 other monorail lines - includ ing one which will run along side Tokyo's renowned shop ping boulevard, the Ginza. Also planned are monorails between Tokyo and a pro posed Brasilia like satellite city of government office buildings, which- the govern ment plans to begin building by 1966. Need Is Great Nowhere in the world is the need for a radical new mass transit system greater or more urgent than in Tokyo. The city's existing systems are dangerously overtaxed. No matter now he travels, the commuter in Tokyo is likely to find it a nightmare. So great is the rush-hour crush on the subways, inter urban and urban trains and streetcars that offices have been forced to stagger their working hours. Most of the city's narrow streets and its few wide boule vards become hopelessly 1964 Olympics. Construction ' snarled with morning, noon and evening rush-hour traffic. Even on off hours traffic creeps along. No Mora Subways City planners have aban doned the idea of any signifi cant expansion of existing transit systems. What will probably be the last subway to be built in Tokyo is under construction. Any additional subways would undermine the city's already shaky foun dations, transit officials say. An elevated highway con necting sites for the Olympics is under construction and a few streets are being widened -at the expense in some areas of relatively new buildings. But no new through - streets are being built. Yet, 10,000 new cars each month are joining those al ready on the road. New rail road lines in Tokyo, where property comes high and emi nent domain is unheard of, are out of the question. The government office which 13 years ago approved the last T aiTs SHOES FEBRUARY FOOTWEAR FDESTA! BIS REDUCTIONS! GREAT VALUES! HUGE SAVINGS! . xx m . . " ' THE BOSSA NOVA T-strap in black smooth leather or black patent leather. Sizes 410. REDUCED TO 3 77 TWIN PEAK FLAT. In black combination or bone combination. Sizes 410. REDUCED TO 277 j" FIRST QUALITY DRESS SHEER NYLONS REDUCED TO 2 prs. 66 230 E. Main Phone 773-9081 OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT 'TIL 9 That m nt 100 Kyl'i ihpt torts ' (At t;f for use sometime during the summer." Haworth said. The diving pool, included in the original design for Jack son park, will be 30 by 40 feet in size with a depth of 13 feet off the board. It will have a high board and a low board, Haworth said. The diving pool and the swimming pool will be divid ed by a sun deck 20 feet wide with both inside the general enclosure on the northwest corner of the present pool development. Estimated Cost Estimated cost of the pool is $23,000, and it is important that construction get under way before any more time elapses, Haworth said. "We have already waited three years," he explained, "and materials and construc tion costs are increasing at the rate of 4 per cent each year. This makes it difficult to built up a reserve adequate for the job. That's why this assist from the Crater Lions means so much to the recre ation department." Three years ago the Crater Lions auction money went to provide the wading pool at the Jackson park. Two years ago, the club helped get the bacred Heart hospital build ing fund inaugurated with a donation of $4,500 and last year the club members raised $3,000 for the Bear Creek park development to which they also donated many times that much in work and equip ment. Tom Boyd is chairman of the 1963 auction and Wayne Medford is sales chairman. Dave Allen of Channel 5 and Dick Walsh will be the auctioneers. "People are J talking I w about I the Kiwanis Kapers" Official Nationwide Consumer Testing Institute Report: PLYMOUTH WINS PERFORMANCE TEST. PLYMOUTH WINS GAS ECONOMY TEST. It happened In the second big meeting ot Ford GaUxle "500", Chevrolet Impale and Plymouth Fury at Riverside, Cat. In m "Showdown" Plymouth asked for. The cars war all V-8s, com parably equipped. And Nationwide Consumer Testing Institute was there to conduct the competition and see to It that Its strict rules were followed. When It was over, Plymouth had victories In almost every performance test, plus victory In the all-Important economy run. Plymouth for 'S3 also has the only S-ytr50,000-mfle warranty In the touch Plymouth-Ford-ChtvroM laagu. See your dealer. Plymouth's oii the move. WORLD FAIR MONORAIL This is the new-fangled "El" type $4-million monorail that shuttled visitors from downtown Se attle to the World's Fair grounds last year. 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