When the city was crying out for mass transport options, it offered the potential to service remarkably few people – but was built anyway
Ever since a 1993 episode of The Simpsons about a travelling salesman selling a dodgy monorail system to Springfield, the word has been satiric shorthand for a flashy but faulty project governments jump to waste money on.
In Sydney, mention of “the monorail” carries a similar, slightly more embarrassing weight in the city’s collective memory.
