The Connect Ithaca Steering Committee's Chairperson is Jacob Roberts(website no longer up). In 2005, Roberts was a Green Party candidate for Mayor of Syracuse, New York – as shown in this video. However, his campaign was upstaged by a hockey mascot called Al the Ice Gorilla:
...prominent activist Jacob Roberts "must be burned that Al the Ice Gorilla's late entry into the mayoral race is garnering way more ink than Roberts' write-in campaign."
According to this article, Roberts supported the Destiny mall development:
Roberts, who is running on the Youth Empowered Sustainability (YES!) ticket, proposes partnering with Destiny, while the Greens advocate public development.
The Destiny mall was supposed to have a monorail and a PRT system for its parking lots.
Now, Jake is promoting PRT:
I have just returned from a PRT conference in Sweden and listened to EXPERTS in Global Climate Change, Peek Oil, [sic] Environmental Analysis, Solar Energy Systems, Tranportation [sic] and Urban Planning, Property Development, Citizen Advocacy and more...they all conclude that PRT is a superior solution to mass transit options like the Car, Light Rail, Heavy Rail, Buses, etc...
Readers of this blog may recall that PRT is a bogus, anti-transit scam that was heavily promoted by Gary Dean Zimmermann – who is now serving a federal prison sentence for accepting gratuities.
While Zimmermann sits in prison, his public defender has filed an appeal with the U.S. 8th Circuit Appeals Court. The judges heard oral arguments on September 24, 2007. What follows are extended excerpts from Mike Cheever, the Assistant U.S. Attorney who delivered the federal government's case against Zimmermann:
UPDATE:: As you may have noticed, the Connect Ithaca website is no longer up.
Also, from the the Podcar site, a picture of Jake "The 3rd Force" Roberts:
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