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...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 that gargantuan project than Caesar was with two-thirds of Gaul. And so he has commissioned an study—the first stop on the long ride to monorail creation...
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...
Then again, there’s just as much to doubt. As marvelous as Amorello??€™s dream seems on paper, it is hard to imagine justifying the enormous expenditure needed to bring such an eighth wonder to this world. Single-serving Learjets for each commuter would be cool, too, but they’re just not a feasible way to address Massachusetts’ rush-hour crunch. As cleverly right-under-our-noses a location as the Pike’s median may seem, it is hardly ideal in practical terms—a magnetic express along...
...more one thinks of the fantastic monorail, the more it comes to seem like one of those grand delusions, so appealing in the wee hours of the metaphoric night, that deflate as soon as morning comes. Better leave the monorail to haunt our dreams—and Amorello??€™s—than to let a bureaucratic nightmare kill it with the cruelties of reality. The breathtakingly-beautiful vision isn’t meant for this world...
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