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Almost a year ago, Chris Millar leader of the Daventry District Council told the Daventry Express, “The eyes of the world are on Daventry with this project." The project he was talking about was a plan to install a futuristic "Personal Rapid Transit" (PRT, Podcars) system in the quiet market town of Daventry, England, population 22,36.

Now, it appears the… Continue

The Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Pod People are always challenging me to prove that PRT promoters are anti-Light Rail Transit (LRT).

As if PRT-promoter and LRT foe Michele Bachmann and her sidekick Mark Olson aren't enough proof, here is a video by "RP4409"claiming that LRT i… Continue

For over thirty years, the promoters of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) have claimed that PRT was "faster, better, cheaper" than conventional transit. Dozens of PRT projects have failed to live up those claims. ATS, the would-be vendors of ULTra claim it is "a revolution in sustainable public transport" . I began hearing about a PRT project in London's Heathrow Airport in 2005 that would in effect be the proof of the claims of the PRT promoters. It was suppose… Continue

A relic of misguided 1960's futuristic thinking, the so-called Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia now is in bad need of an overhaul. Should taxpayers spend upwards of $90 million to fix it?

The futuristic Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) in Morgantown, West Virginia was designed to be an innovative "personal" mode of transportation... but it was jinxed from the start:

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You may have seen blog posts and news stories about a "sustainable" city in the United Arab Emirates called Masdar. One of the supposed "green" features of the Masdar project is a "Personal Rapid Transit" (PRT) system. It turns out the PRT system is a joke... but what do expect from a… Continue