Seattle Area Monorail

The monorail that has been operating in Seattle since 1962.

Established as the Seattle Popular Monorail Authority (SPMA) by a November 5, 2002 ballot measure to build a monorail system in Seattle. Now commonly known as the Seattle Monorail Project (SMP). The SPMA has shut down and the web site no longer works.

A web site with the intention of gathering support to save the Green Line monorail project.

This private non-profit organization promotes an expanded monorail system in Seattle.

A group that wants to see the monorail built.

A group promoting a system of monorail lines to connect suburbs of Seattle.

Claims that the Seattle Public Monorail Authority (SPMA) and various politicians and others conspired to kill the monorail project, thereby “swindling” the people of Seattle out of the Green Line monorail project that they had already approved five times, and is proposing a push to reinstate the Project.

Light Rail Opponents

Fighting to stop the light rail project and put the money to better use for alternative forms of transportation.

Other Seattle Area Transit

Serves Clark County, Washington, way south of Seattle, at the southern border of Washington along the Columbia River, and north of Portland, Oregon.

Serves Clallum County, Washington, northwest of Seattle, on the Olympic Peninsula.

Serves Snohomish County, Washington (the next county north of Seattle) with extensive bus service.

Serves the city of Everett, Washington, about 30 miles (about 50 km.) north of Seattle.

Serves Grays Harbor County, West of Olympia and on the shores of the Pacific Ocean.

Serves Thurston County (county seat, Olympia), about 60 miles south of Seattle and the next county south of Pierce County.

Serves Jefferson County, northwest of Seattle on the Olympic Peninsula.

Serves Kitsap County (county seat, Bremerton), west across Puget Sound from Seattle.

Serves Mason County (county seat, Shelton), southwest from Seattle and west of Tacoma.

Serves King County, Washington (the county Seattle is in) with extensive bus service and the Waterfront Streetcar.

Serves Pierce County, Washington (the next county south of Seattle), including the City of Tacoma, with extensive bus service.

Serves Snohomish, King and Pierce counties with high-speed rapid transit utilizing express busses, commuter trains, and now building a light rail line called Link.

Public transportation for the Vancouver, B.C. area.

Public transportation for the Portland, Oregon area.

Provides crossings of Puget Sound at various places

Information about public transportation and links to many sites

Links to many other transportation sites

Monorail in Other Areas

OPERATING:

An international society of monorail boosters. This site is probably the world’s best monorail site, and tells about virtually all the world's monorails with links to most of them.

Chongqing, China line opened in June 2005. Note: This site is in Chinese and opens very slowly.

Las Vegas, Nevada, has a modern operating monorail line.

Monorail Malasia operates a transit monorail system in Kuala Lumpur, using trains designed and built in Malaysia.

Note: This site is in Russian, but even if you can’t read Russian, the pictures are worth taking a look.

This monorail connects Singapore City with Sentosa resort, offshore.

PROPOSED: Colorado Monorail

From Denver International Airport into the Rockies!