Seattle Police briefly shut down the monorail line earlier this morning after receiving a call about a man walking on the tracks.
Police negotiators contacted the 30-year-old man—who turned out to be deaf—on a platform on 5th Ave between Olive and Pine. The man apparently told police he was feeling depressed.
The man has been taken to Harborview for evaulation.
Police say the incident only lasted about 10 minutes.
The Monorail really needs a fence around it to prevent things like this.
This made it really inconvenient for those of us trying to get from the Cheesecake Factory to the Science Fiction Museum.
Wait… how?
Once I almost built a railroad…
was that ‘folsom prison blues’ reference really necessary?
Let’s put a twenty foot fence up along the monorail.