The Metropolitan Transit Development Board allocated $350,000 to study the idea, aimed at helping ease congestion in Mission and Pacificbeachs. The loop would start at the Old Town Transit Center and run to stations at Rosecrans Avenue, the Sports Arena, West Point LomaBoulevard, SeaWorld, Quivira Basin and Belmont Park in Mission Beach.
Metropolitan staff will study potential station and parking locations and explore what type of elevated monorail system, which runs an one electrified rail, would be most efficient.
A transit board committee had decided last year not to pursue extending the city's trolley system to the beach, due to environmental concerns and heavy development and traffic in the beach areas.
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