"This is an incredible opportunity for us," said City Councilman Ed Porter, who has championed a the personal rapid transit for the past year.
Yeah, an incredible opportunity to waste citizens and public officials' time. As usual, the professionals respectfully point out a few of PRT's many shortfalls.
The report raised concerns with reliability, cost overruns, susceptibility to earthquake damage and spacing between trains to prevent accidents.
"The fact that no personal rapid transit is running anywhere troubles me," Burr said. "The seismic shortfall is a big one. They could engineer around it, but show me"
"The promises made in the report are a stretch"
Other critics say personal rapid transit wouldn't be necessary if more attention and resources were put into bus and rail transportation.
That last point is the key to understanding how the PRT scam works. PRT confuses the real transportation issues facing citizens and public officials.
While Ed Porter is wasting Santa Cruzans' time and money with his PRT pod fantasy...
Santa Cruz Indymedia:
Despite a large public outcry against the move, the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission voted to pursue funding for three local Highway 1 expansion projects. The three projects were brought to the new SCCRTC on their first meeting, January 11th, 2007.
What a coincidence! Whenever highway expansion faces opposition, you'll find the PRTistas. In Minneapolis it was Dean Zimmermann (with help from Mark Olson and Michele Bachmann), In Santa Cruz, it's Ed Porter.
I shared the Minnesota experience with PRT in this opinion piece published by the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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