[Mpls] Personal Rapid Transit

[Michael Thompson]

PRT in Minneapolis is, hands down, the most ridiculous, pie-in-in-the-sky,
wishful thinking, throwing money down the tubes idea I have ever, ever heard
of. A "meeting in the sky"? Please? I know what kind of meetings there will
be, and they won't involve guys in suits and ties. I'm sure there won't be
any vandalism, nobody will get run over (remember, LRT has killed more in
Minneapolis than concealed carry has), no auto versus pod collisions, no
drug deals, no "PRT Club" liaisons (with associated messes for the next
rider to sit in) and on and on and on...........

Please, all we need is another wacky idea to clog up traffic, and this will.
A model or pro-PRT video can show us anything. The best minds from the USDOT
can't fix the signals on Hiawatha, and we want to run little pods down
Hennepin so people don't sweat in their vest?

Mike Thompson
Windom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dorie Rae Gallagher" <hoboanne at uslink.net>
To: "mpls mn forum" <mpls at mnforum.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Personal Rapid Transit


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> > Michael Jensvold wrote:
> > >  I was pleased to see that the latest PRT article ran
> > >  right next to the obituaries.
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> > I strongly agree.  This is an outrageously stupid idea
> > combining the worst features of both automobiles and
> > rapid-transit.
> > Michael Atherton writes:
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> Well, I  LIKE  the idea and the perfect place would be to run it from
Uptown
> to Downtown along Hennepin across the river to Main. Ideal for eliminating
> some of the traffic on Henn., ideal for tourists, ideal for sight-seeing,
> ideal for just moving people without traffic jams, pollution, road rage,
> they
> could use their cell phones in private!, could hold meetings in the sky,
> have lunch in Uptown and be back Downtown without stress or a sweaty vest.
> Conventioneers staying downtown could frequent the bars in Uptown and stay
> off the road in between, courier service...it might even give new slant to
> Michael's story of the Jag. I  see it brimed with all sorts of
> possibilities...it could be so popular it might pay for itself. {Park
Board
> might want to get involved :+}!
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> Dorie Rae Gallagher
> Nokomis
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