>>1291615Didn't you post this in another thread already?
Suspended monorail is a very niche concept. It is best suited for special conditions where you have just a small corridor of airspace and don't want to dig a tunnel or build tram lines. Wuppertal is such a case, as it's a hilly and rocky nightmare of a city, but has the Wupper river available to build track over, which also happens to be the city's lifeline in more than one way. Chongqing in China is a similar deal with huge mountains and two large rivers causing a bunch of transport problems in the city, and they chose to build 2 straddle-beam monorail lines to solve them.
Double decker trams may look nice, but they're difficult to operate already because getting on and off the top deck can take a while. You really don't want that in a transit system making frequent and close stops. S-Bahn systems in eastern Germany and Austria already have a similar problem. Triple deckers would make everything much, much worse.
But I think what you're getting at is getting directly from the first floor of a building onto the top deck of a tram. That would be pretty cool. But it would mean you can't have any other means of transportation for the two bottom floors of every attached building, as the coming tram would fill out all the available space. That means getting up on the third floor (or basement) for just walking. It would be a mess.
