Monorail to ease bridge traffic?

First came the ferry tales. Now, solutions to Bay Bridge traffic are looking a lot more like Disney World.

Grasping at perhaps one of the last straws possible to relieve congestion on the bridge, Del. Michael D. Smigiel, R-Cecil, is proposing that the Maryland Department of Transportation examine the feasibility of creating a monorail to run from Annapolis to Kent Island.

The monorail - a single-rail train system best known for transporting tourists around theme parks in Florida and California - comes in the wake of Gov. Martin O'Malley's decision to put ideas for another Bay Bridge on the back burner.

A group of...