A Google engineer requested a monorail at work, and got his wish, sort of:
When Paul Cowan, an engineer at Google Australia, began noticing his company beginning to sprawl from building to building, he jokingly submitted a ticket to the building management team requesting that a monorail be installed between the buildings. After some back and forth, the support ticket more or less went viral inside Google. Read the full story here.
As luck would have it, the Sydney Monorail had been shut down in June of 2013, and the monorail cars were being sold. While Cowan's employer did not buy the entire monorail and build his dream transportation system, it did buy two of the monorail cars for use as meeting spaces.
The Sydney Morning Herald has footage of one of the cars being installed. The paper estimates that it cost Google around $250,000 (roughly $236,500 in US dollars) just to move and install the cars, adding: "The carriages will be used for meeting rooms, and will have have air-conditioning and televisions installed." Sounds like an okay deal, no?
The Next Web has the backstory, along with the YouTube video of time-lapse footage of the crane lifting the cars into the building:
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