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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1963
Tokyo Starts Construction of World's First Monorail Network
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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
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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.
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