Bachmann Supported Funding For Transportation System That Does Not Exist.

From the Wetterling Campaign website:

Bachmann supported incentives to help with funding for personal rapid transit, a futuristic idea where transit pods “whisk travelers along on elevated tracks.” Incentives included asking the state to borrow as much as $12 million, giving tax breaks to companies that operate the system, and allowing local governments to borrow money so that they could build systems of their own. According to a column in the St. Croix Valley Press, PRT “was little more than a stalking horse for the highway construction industry and individuals belonging to anti-rail transit groups.” Plans for the PRT never evolved past computer designs and online simulations. [ Saint Paul Pioneer Press, 2/11/2004; Saint Croix Valley Press, 5/25/2006]