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...Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Chair Matthew J. Amorello, the sun might soon rise over a new kind of median, a median defined not by Jersey barriers or Jersey-esque patches of exhaust-wilted grass, but by a sleek, superfast monorail propelled from Springfield to Boston by powerful electromagnets. Commuters would still commute on either side in the familiar car lanes, but they would be the main event no longer—the median’s proud iron steed would have stolen their thunder. A high-tech, vaguely Blade Runner-flavored cream center would have at last filled the transportational Twinkie...
Today, this is a dream: an expensive and far-fetched twinkle in the eye of the Pike’s highest don. For such a dream, devoting $10,000 for an exploratory study must have seemed cheap to Amorello. The pharaohs had their pyramids; Mitterand, his Chunnel. Amorello might have his magnetically-levitated monorail. As chair, Amorello took over the Big Dig in February 2002, and for nearly two years the rest of the transportation world have looked on with a combination of envy and schadenfreude. But a man of Amorello’s imagination is no more satisfied with...
There is much to admire in Amorello’s Quixotic fancy. Countless men and women drive down the Pike every day, scarcely glancing at the humble spit that separates them from their mirror-image twins making the same journey in reverse. Amorello looked at that same sight and saw what no other could: prime real estate. One man, one vision, one rail—gravity’s just bringing us down, baby...
...devastating—just ask commuters on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, who suffered for years during the construction of an “AirTrain” to John F. Kennedy International Airport. (Kennedy ’40 was a former Crimson Executive.) And hasn’t Amorello ever seen the cautionary episode of “The Simpsons” where a huckster and his monorail nearly destroy Springfield...
...review board that’s consulting on the land’s sale also sent Amorello a letter on Thursday, strongly urging that the Turnpike Authority hold off on finalizing the deal for at least 120 days, in order to provide concerned parties additional time to analyze the environmental and economic impacts of selling the parcel...