One advantage PRT has going for it is that it is grade separated. As traffic conditions in the metro area become worse, it is important that transit get the advantage. With a local bus system, it is not possible for a bus to be a quicker form of transportation than a car. With prt or a grade-separated system, we could have the convenience of not owning a car, plus we could save a lot of time during rush hour. Of course, this isn't necessarily confined to PRT. It can be done with LRT in many ways: elevated, underground or using technology to give signal preference. I've typically thought that instead of the tremendous infrastructure spending for LRT, we could simply build a dedicated bus lane that would function the same way. The same signal preference could be given as well. However, Bruce, there's one factor that you do not take into consideration in your arguments against PRT/LRT: people generally tend to shy away from buses. While it may be true that ridership decreased in the switch from bus to LRT, that can be explained by other research which says that people also do not like to transfer between modes of transportation - i.e. bus-rail, rail-prt, etc. My solution? If there is financing for the PRT line, let's see how it works. If it gets a good response, we can eventually work towards a complete PRT system, which would be convenient, fast, and unimodal.
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