I am for giant slingshots. You the traveller step into the pocket, both are drawn back back back, aimed in the general direction of the destination, and FWUPP!! you're on your way! You fly out of downtown Mpls in no time at all, far over those poor slobs on 35W. You laugh your most carefree laugh as you speed over south Mpls! Soon you'll be back home in Apple Valley!
If this mode becomes popular, there might be occasional instances of travellers encountering each other at high speed in mid-air. So it's not perfect. But aside from this problem (which, you note, I candidly raise in the spirit of open discussion), it neatly solves at one and the same time the problems of transportation and of overpopulation. --David Shove Roseville On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allen Graetz's comparison of a PRT vehicle to luggage at the Denver > International Airport may have detracted a bit from the rest of his argument; > when you can program a suitcase as PRT cars are to be by the users in a > working > system, that comparison would be valid. I suspect that I'd be safer in a PRT > vehicle than I am today on any road in the world with the kind of drivers we > encounter and occasionally emulate. Graetz's point that control technology > like > Ed Anderson's applied to personal vehicles on more traditional roadways is > more > valid application of PRT type systems. > Chris Johnson's example of a multi-modal system makes much more sense > for the present; it provides a basis for adaptability of transportation to > people and vice versa. > Still, I can't give up on double decking our roads, or better yet, > enclosing them completely. We could provide ventilation, power, and light if > we > combined vents and stacks associated with wind generators running off of air > turbulence from vehicles on the enclosed roads! And think of all the new > acreage > available for development on top of every road so enclosed. Forget PRT and go > with the double deck. > > Bill Kahn > even more feverish in Prospect Park > REMINDERS: > 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL > PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
