Ballard man among those stuck on monorail

Posted by Geeky Swedes on December 15th, 2008

Getting stuck on the monorail isn’t much of a story these days, but Ballard’s own Robert Baker has a unique perspective: he drove the monorail on its debut during the 1962’s World’s Fair. So when Baker and his wife were stuck on the stalled monorail Monday afternoon, he said he felt for the driver. “I told him that it happened during the fair,” he said. Interview from the Seattle PI:

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whatthe?

"it smells like piss and apparently works when it feels like it"

Sounds like my father in law. HAR!

boardbrown

BOARD BROWN!!

BlackSheep

Forgive his absence, 50 - sounds like he was experiencing a delay on the monorail....

50intheclip

BOARD BROWN!!

boardbrown

The city does maintain it. Here is an excerpt from the Monorail Owner's Manual:

1) Wait 'till it breaks.
2) When it breaks, driver shall use personal cell phone to call for helf (train phone doesn't work).
3) Remove passengers w/ help from Fire Dept, including those too old to use ladder.
4) Fix broken piece w/ duct tape. If no duct tape is available, chewing gum will work in most cases. If broken piece still does not work, bang on it w/ personal cell phone until it does.
5) Pull into nearest station and pick up fresh load of passengers.
6) Repeat.

50intheclip

tear the monorail down its embarrassing. it smells like piss and apparently works when it feels like it. Fire the maintanence crew.

Joey

"Hostess // Dec 15, 2008 at 9:30 pm

Tear this joke down. Seriously, it’s embarrassing."

Or how about the city actually maintains the thing and prevents this from happening?

Finley Ridgeman

I say we instead improve this Monorail and use it to hold races between the cars! Take the governors off of the motors and really crank them up to see what they can do. I'm all for the city hosting an aging dangerous piece of junk, but I think that if we apply ourselves and put forth some real effort we can build a better deathtrap for our children, and their children.