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Seattle Center Monorail

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 24, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 19:37, 5 February 2022 (UTC)



The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated straddle-beam monorail line in Seattle, Washington, United States. The mile-long (1.6 km) monorail runs along 5th Avenue between Seattle Center and Westlake Center in Downtown Seattle, making no intermediate stops. The monorail is a major tourist attraction but also operates as a regular public transit service with trains every ten minutes running for up to 16 hours per day. It was constructed in eight months for the 1962 world's fair, hosted at the Seattle Center, and opened on March 24, 1962. The system retains its original fleet of two Alweg trains, each capable of carrying 450 people. The monorail's southern terminus was moved into Westlake Center in 1988 and the rest of the system was designated a historic landmark in 2003. The system remains under the ownership of the city government and is operated by a private company. Plans to expand the monorail to serve other areas of Seattle have been rejected or shelved several times since the 1960s.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Chinatown MRT station (January 17, public transit), Ezra Meeker (December 29, Washington state)
 * Main editors: SounderBruce
 * Promoted: April 23, 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: 60th anniversary of its opening
 * Support as nominator.  Sounder Bruce  11:06, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per reasoning. truflip99 (talk) 17:59, 31 January 2022 (UTC)