>>1017201For suburban routings, you're absolutely right.
However, for anything approaching urban densities, you're sadly mistaken. I used to hate monorails as well, but nowadays they seem more like what they always were: a less intrusive version of the old elevated.
Why is that relevant in 2016? Because the cost of building new subway lines has become so prohibitive that outside of kluges like building down highway medians, no western city that's not NYC or a national capital can actually afford to build new subway lines through their urban cores, which is especially bad given the surging populations in dense US and European cities.
A SAFEGE or Alweg system might not make sense as an alternative to a suburban or Dallas-density light rail system, but it could absolutely be just what the doctor ordered for a city like Baltimore, Boston, or Philadelphia where there's absolutely the need for another rapid transit-density line or three, but where land acquisition and tunneling costs mean building a new subway would be next to impossible.
