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To: "Tom Maycock" <tmaycock@interaccess.com>, <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: ...woo-hoo
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:39:18 -0600
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From: Tom Maycock <tmaycock@interaccess.com>


>IMO, motorsports enthusiasts should be leading the fight for better mass
>transit, for better alternatives to gridlock-inducing urban sprawl, and
>for clean-burning, high-mileage cars. If we can reduce the amount of time
>and miles and gas wasted and pollution created on those mindless,
>spirit-killing daily urban commutes, the world will probably continue to
>be a friendlier place for having fun with cars.


That's why, as a car freak, I have been a proponent of PRT since the
seventies.  No other technology has the ability of taking drudge cars out of
the picture so we can have some fun.

Trains and busses won't do it.  Yet the meatheads in charge of the state
where I live are pouring a ton of money into the LRT rathole.

See:
http://www.publicpurpose.com/ut-mspsp.htm
Light Rail in Minneapolis: A Bridge to Nowhere

When you are done with that, check out some more-sensible alternatives:

http://www.cprt.org/
http://www.taxi2000.com/
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans/prtquick.htm
http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans
http://www.skyloop.org/
http://advancedtransit.org/
http://www.wolfenet.com/~rune/CommonSense.htm
http://www.publicpurpose.com/ut-mspsp.htm

Phil Ethier    Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC   pethier@isd.net     http://www.mnautox.com/
"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.

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