Editing SAFEGE (section)

====Unfulfilled proposals====
In 1966, a proposal was considered to construct a SAFEGE-type monorail in the City of [[Manchester]]. The {{convert|16|mi|km|adj=on}} line was planned to link [[Manchester Airport]] with the city and suburbs, with a tunnel under the city centre, but the scheme, along with the later [[Picc-Vic tunnel]] (which would be a conventional [[rapid transit]] line) was abandoned due to cost.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Monorail for Manchester?|website=archive.commercialmotor.com|date=28 January 1966|url=http://archive.commercialmotor.com/article/28th-january-1966/24/monorail-for-manchester|access-date=5 March 2017}}</ref> The city eventually developed its own [[light rail]] network, [[Manchester Metrolink]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ogden|first1=Eric|last2=Senior|first2=John|title=Metrolink|publisher=Transport Publishing Company|location=Glossop, Derbyshire|year=1992|isbn=0-86317-155-9}}
</ref> of which [[Airport Line (Manchester Metrolink)|one of its lines]], opened in 2014, now links Manchester Airport to the city centre.

In November 1967, General Electric proposed to construct a SAFEGE monorail from downtown [[San Francisco]] to [[San Francisco International Airport]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/rapidtransitserv1968jaco|title=Rapid transit service to San Francisco International Airport and to the Peninsula|last1=Jacobs|first1=Allan B.|last2=San Francisco (Calif.). Dept. of City Planning|last3=San Francisco (Calif.). City Planning Commission|date=1968|publisher=San Francisco : Dept. of City Planning|others=San Francisco Public Library}}</ref> The City of San Francisco studied the proposal, along with an extension of the [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific Railroad]]'s [[Peninsula Commute]] [[commuter rail]] line and an extension of the [[Bay Area Rapid Transit|BART]] [[rapid transit]] system. The proposal's incompatibility with other rail transit lines, the urban design concerns of an elevated guideway, and potential competitive impact on parallel rapid transit lines led to its dismissal in favor of a BART extension. Ultimately SFO was connected to downtown San Francisco via [[San Francisco International Airport station|BART]] in 2003.