Epsom Salts Line -- Monorail to Nowhere

Some engineers dream of a modern monorail transportation system that would whisk thousands of Los Angeles commuters and shoppers back and forth in half the usual time, to say nothing of putting an end to present serious growth among the local populace of parking-lot palsy, freeway frenzy, and other forms of the traffic tremens. Suspended monorail lines of great carrying capacity, they argue, could be built along low-cost routes such as the bed of the Los Angeles River, and could connect key points to and from which some means of rapid transit is sorely needed. They point out that a monorail line of this type has been operated successfully for many years in Germany, and without a fatal accident. And then, perhaps in a shrewd appeal to civic pride, they add that Los Angeles could be a true pioneer in introducing monorail transportation to this country.