New Jersey Studies PRT
3 January 2005 - 1:00pm
New Jersey approves a study of personal rapid transit for Long Branch, a shore town just south of NYC. The New York Press calls it an 'epic boondoggle'.
"As described by its promoters, PRT is a computerized, driverless mass transit system. The passenger enters a sleek, four-person pod that is guaranteed to be waiting at the station, swipes a fare card, punches in a destination and goes.
In practice PRT has never worked anywhere despite 30 years of study and development. Combining the small carrying capacity of an automobile with the expensive infrastructure of mass transit, PRT offers the worst of both worlds."
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Source:
New York Press, December 28, 2004
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