Am I imagining it or is someone actually suggesting
PRT can be "door to door"? I thought these pods were
to be guided along rails raised above the streets. How
can such a thing be anymore "door to door" than any
other public mode of transit? Will the system run
down
every street of the city? And how much money will
that
cost? Plus, if you put 4 people in the pod, how can
it
take all four of the people "nonstop" anywhere? It
will be really more like 4 people sharing a cab, and
only the first of the 4 passengers can get a nonstop
trip. Or is the capacity of 4 just for the extremely
rare case of 4 people who have the same destination?
In which case wouldnt it be more practical to give
them
a capacity of one?
Anyway, I have to say this is a dream that has no
chance of coming true. It may be more the economics
of it than the convenience. We already saw the
politics at work with the lrt. A system that requires
a higher expenditure than cars per passenger mile
encounters a political resistance that was barely
overcome with lrt. If politics favors any change from
the personal vehicle, it is probably a new commuter
train delvering people from the northwest suburbs
to downtown. The cost and disruption of building prt
will pretty much determine it won't ever be built.
And that is because there are too many competing
needs that require bonding and the resistance to any
increase in taxes.
Jim Mork
Cooper
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