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...there are more free shows. Florida's trained porpoise, for instance, which cost $2 for adults and $1 for children last year, is now free, as will be an elaborate water ski show when it opens May 8. Admission to the 4,000-ft. monorail ride (80? for adults, 60? for children) now entitles one to unlimited rides. One of last year's most popular shows, Les Poupées de Paris, has cut its $2 admission price in half...
...MONORAIL ride around the comparatively uncrowded Lake Amusement Area offers a suspended seven-minute fair survey...
...MONORAIL ride around the comparatively uncrowded Lake Amusement Area offers a suspended seven-minute fair survey...
...spanking new Wenner-Gren monorail, costing $55 million, will soon whisk tourists from Haneda Airport to downtown Tokyo, while the world's fastest railroad, the 125-m.p.h. Hikari Express (TIME, Sept. 4), runs via artful Kyoto to bustling Osaka in four hours-almost half the time it took before...
...often have to move at the pace of a slow walk. Desperate for a way to reduce the growing crush, cities are seeking to improve their mass transit with new ideas, new systems and new equipment. Last week American Machine & Foundry announced that 18 U.S. cities are considering elevated monorail systems. Pittsburgh is building a one-mile experimental "skybus" expressway over which remote-control trains of rubber-tired buses will be guided by an I-shaped center rail. And the President fortnight ago ordered the Commerce Department to study plans for a high speed (about 150 m.p.h.) rail service along...