On the last day of 2006, an opinion piece appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel promoting PRT:
Up-to-date information on options for PRT in Santa Cruz is available from City Council member Ed Porter, who has championed this sensible new solution to our traffic woes for several years.
Ed Porter is yet another gadgetbahning Green councilman like Dean Zimmermann. I figured I could save Santa Cruzans the hassle of taking the PRTistas seriously by telling them the Minnesota story:
Although the Taxi 2000 Corp. lawsuit and the trials of its most prominent promoters, Olson and Zimmermann, likely sealed PRT's fate in Minnesota, a far more important factor in the demise of PRT in Minnesota was the phenomenal success of the Hiawatha Light Rail Line.
My advice to public officials and citizens of Santa Cruz is to pass on PRT and look at other towns and cities that have solved similar transport problems with a more tried-and-true transit mode such as streetcars.
Not too many cities left... maybe the PRTistas should try Baghdad next.
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