Proposed Monorail on Poydras Street, 1981

ID: 2096
This file appears in: 1984 World's Fair Monorail
Proposed Monorail on Poydras Street, 1981

Mayor Ernest "Dutch" Morial 's administration invested a good deal of attention towards transportation planning.


City Planning Department pamphlet

This file appears in: 1984 World's Fair Monorail

By Romain Cheynet
When planning the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition (LWE), fair and city officials decided to build a monorail system. This project had two objectives. First, it was intended to move many visitors so as to limit traffic congestion in the Warehouse and…