Description

The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated straddle-beam monorail line in Seattle, Washington, United States. The 0.9-mile (1.4 km) monorail runs along 5th Avenue between the 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 usually operates with one train per track, and the entire trip takes approximately two minutes. In 2023, the monorail carried 2.1 million total passengers; it regularly earns a profit that is split between the contractor and the city government.