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Posted 29 November 2015 - 10:09 AM

Reunion Island is a French colony located east of Madagascar.

 

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The problem of displacement in Reunion remains the major issue of the campaign of the Regional Reunion occupying the political landscape for months. A few days before the first round of these elections I throw a cat among the pigeons by asking me the question of strategic choice in which are stubborn to the last two tenants of the inverted pyramid. The one with the tram-train the other with his NRL.
It is obvious that we need a solution and that much time has already been lost; the impatience of Reunion is every day more glaring and yet no real solution has been proposed so that there is one that seems relevant, sensible, realistic, economical, environmentally acceptable, quick to build and above all truly creative jobs, tourist attractions and vision towards the future.
 
The tram-train, yet recognized as a relevant solution, suffered from competition with the House of Civilizations and Paul Vergès would not decide in her time between her daughter and her son and rather than recognize that was MCUR not the idea of ​​the century, he preferred to scuttle the Tram-Train to not choose. The arrival of Didier Robert who had campaigned against Vergès without real project and especially without imagining that he could win this election had no other choice but to do everything except the tram-train and thus to throw in the arms of the giants of construction and be prepared to sacrifice Reunion and the portfolio of Reunion (and the region) for 30 years ...
You will all agree to agree the final cost of the project will be far more important than the initial budget (and how will it be financed?) - It is also nowhere is there any reference the cost of maintenance (especially the famous cold concrete used) or transportation of Malagasy rocks and health, environmental risks and long-term environmental. As for the jobs created there will be very few and for the duration of the project only. Large multinational profiteers will be installed far from our island and some local carriers will be able to offer new 4x4 ...

 
Yet there is another option that a tunnel or Pharaonic road overpasses or property complex tram-train to build. This solution has never been an actual proposal on the part of specialists and no serious analysis by the media and yet it appears well in Didier Robert candidate's program for his future term of office but is well annoyed with because it is an implicit confession of relevance and, in any case, an alternative to NRL option chosen.
 
This is obviously a MONORAIL!
 
What's a monorail?
 
"A monorail is a guided transport system where the vehicle exceeds width largely single track, and where this single track is a rail or rigid beam There are three types depending on the method used to stabilize the vehicle.:
vehicles are placed astride the rail
are suspended below it,
maintain the balance with a gyroscope
using different techniques of propulsion and lift (wheels, airbag, maglev ...).

 

The monorail term can also refer to the vehicle itself. "

( source Wikipedia )
 
I recommend a visit to the site or www.monorails.org on the wikipedia website to learn more and get the list of existing monorail worldwide ( impressive list !).
 
For information Bombardier will build a monorail in Cairo 52 km for 1.2 billion dollars ...
 
In Reunion this solution is perfectly suited to our terrain as it is not necessary to encroach on the floor space (rare and expensive) but simply to position the piles that support the tracks. Also no need to disburse or backfill soil ; the height of the stacks offsetting changes in relieg .

 

This is a quick solution to implement since there are only piles to build on very low grip surfaces on the ground and that there is no impediment to traffic or under construction the channels that are in height. The topography of the route with fewer implementation difficulties than for any other public transport solution. The stations can also be build upwards with all the access solutions including (and especially) for people with reduced mobility (take the example of the Skytrain stations in Paris). Parking areas and connections with other urban and intercity passenger transport network can, for example, be installed at the eastern entrance of St-Denis near the airport and St Paul's side in the sector of Cambaie.

 
This is an economical way and currently the transit solution least costly to implement and that is, actually, an opportunity to recreate an entire economic infrastructure with many permanent jobs, special skills for the conduct, maintenance and service of a network that can gradually grow around the island.
 
Moreover vehicles may be used at night for transporting goods. Simply design adapted vehicles.
 
It is also a modern means of transportation that fits well into the landscape that has a strong tourist appeal, moving in height providing more significant in the pleasure of travel and discovery sites (one is not locked in a tunnel). The automated guided driving and ensuring a high level of safety and comfort and the computerized management ensuring adaptation of the number of vehicles to traffic needs.

 

The simple construction allows the consequent reduction in infrastructure cost and implementation speed and implantation studies tram-train could partly be taken to accelerate deployment.

 
Maintenance costs are among the lowest of all the guided systems profitability and network depreciation are provided in very short time.
 
Moreover it is interesting that at the launch of the international consultation for the tram-train a South Korean company was positioned to offer this monorail option as part of a public-private partnership for which the Region would have had no need of financing. The undertaking performing any single site and implement in exchange for a rent that does not mobilized budgetary capacity of the region for decades as the current NRL.
 
This option was not selected because the engineers of the region (all the orders of large rail companies) did not feel able to technically follow such a project for which their skills and relations were not solicited.
 
The monorail is terribly efficient because its average rate reached 99.9% of operability. For example, the Disney World monorail in Florida has a total of 12 trains during peak season and 10 are permanently active 17 hours a day and carry 200,000 visitors each day.

 

The monorail security is one of the best of all ground transportation systems. The likelihood ratio of a collision with a car, truck or other monorail is zero. The derailment risk is virtually impossible.

 
At the environmental level the monorail fits perfectly into the landscape in which it has a very low impact. His carbon load is one of the best and, above all, it is a real alternative to any car and it is the only credible and realistic alternative to the establishment of a network intercity backbone of passenger transport and freight.
 
Finally there is the basis for development of a new business sector in Réunion with the creation of an entire economic infrastructure of lasting jobs, a real tourist attraction and a strong motivation to abandon the car for trips long distance daily.
 
The savings on such a solution would quickly put into operation and it would be possible to finance the consolidation of the journey St-Denis / La Possession by the current road that present a real risk that a portion of the path. As for the flow of transit traffic on St-Denis could be greatly enhanced by transforming the South Boulevard into a real fast track with the removal of all the roundabouts and intersections.
 
The monorail can easily be superimposed on the current route of the South Boulevard it would be possible to simultaneously operate the establishment of the necessary infrastructure to the monorail and the transformation of this axis into a real rapid transit route.

 

Much of the work of tram-train studies could be reused for the route of the monorail Ste-Marie / St Paul and extensions to St Peter and St-Benoit then a full tour of the island, could s' imagine in a time of maximum 10 years.

 
The launch of an international consultation as part of a public-private financing to avoid the Region to mobilize almost all of its resources on too long and the start of construction of the monorail within 3 years.
 
This monorail solution therefore appears to be the most relevant in our island. The whole car will lead to circulatory suffocation keeps the risks associated with the car and the uncertainties of a NRL we do not know where she will lead us (knowing that transit in St-Denis is neither studied to date definitely not funded .... we could end up with a beautiful most expensive highway in the world and more traffic jams in St-Denis entries).
 
The transit of the future is clearly the MONORAIL!

 

 

http://www.ipreunion...nion,36043.html

 

 

 






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