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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prt-talk/message/889
  
 I thought of a cool name to replace the atrocious Taxi2000 name:
Quicksilver Corp. Cool no? Paint the cabs silver and then use the
slogan: "the silver bullet for your city's transit problem."

You could call the cabs "bullets". They kinda look like bullets if
you think about it. I notice there isn't an established term for the
cabs, pods, cars, (whatever you want to call them). Everyone uses
their own term. My city Assemblyman calls them "ladybugs". heh
I like "bullets". As Ed Anderson said, it's a disruptive
technology. It's going to upset a lot of apple carts. Bullets are
pretty disruptive too.

Not peace but the sword.

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prt-talk/message/1011

Look you greens, PRT is going to save lives. Thousands of mothers
won't have to greive every time she passes her dead son's empty
bedroom. This is real. Those who stand against PRT are de facto
enabling wide-spread pre-mature death.

 

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seattleprt/message/1352

Date:  Sat Jan 3, 2004  1:26 am
Subject:  Re: Santa Cruz: Porter vs. Rotkin

"That's a joke," Vice Mayor Rotkin responded. "No public transit
system is going to be funded by private investment."
In a just world, Rotkin would be tied to an iceberg and penguins
would peak at his genitals hours at a time.
 

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     Go Kurt go!!! Rich is a loose canon that gives me concern. Ed advised
me you have reason to believe he is possibly being paid as a promoter of
Skytran. I'm not surprised. I will keep this info between us. Ed is
coming out with a paper on his thoughts about Skytran and they will have
a tough time overcoming his objections to their design (or should I say
lack of design). I'll be at the anti and pro light rail ralley at 2:00
at capitol promoting PRT. As a CPRT rep, I'm officially taking a neutral
stance on light rail. Will have flyers to hand out

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http://www.skywebexpress.com/news/news-2003-01-16-lang.shtml

".... The one specific thing I recall from the meeting is that he told us that he and his colleagues had calculated that if Boston ripped up all of their rail systems and replaced them with PRT with the same line and station locations it could handle the traffic carried by the rail system at substantially lower annual cost. This is an excellent example of Shef’s forthright, honest, statement of facts that many don’t want to hear and are unpopular in political circles."

(Ed Anderson)

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prt-info/message/224

From:  "Ed Anderson"
Date:  Thu Jun 13, 2002  8:19 pm
Subject:  The Illusion of Transit Choice

"....Based on my vast psychoanalytic experience I suspect that he knows that in
the circles he moves if he were to suggest that PRT be considered he would
fear being laughed out of school. Moreover, urging consideration of PRT
could possibly in his eyes tend to discredit his welcome missionary zeal to
tell the truth about LRT. In that I applaud him. His stance is
understandable giving the failure of the Raytheon/RTA program and the lack
of interest among the conventional transit community in looking at possible
new ideas with all the federal pork they have to feed on. But interestingly
enough among those who have requested to be on the Taxi 2000 information
list are several staff people from our Metropolitan Council and MNDOT, as
well as from similar organizations elsewhere. I suspect it may at this
point be important for these people to keep their interest away from their
superiors for fear of reprisals - this has happened before. But we are
wearing away at them. Truth can't be hidden forever.

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prt-info/message/321

Date:  Fri Apr 25, 2003  12:06 am
Subject:  Re: [prt-info] FW: PRT cartoon in the Pulse

Fascinating - And wonderful that the cartoonist understood the difference
between PRT and mass transit! He couldn't think of anything negative to say
about it so he made odd irrelevant statements, and the valid point that it
could be used by terrorists. This shows real success on the marketing y'all
are doing up there. I predict that very cartoonist will soon be a convert.

>here is a cartoon from this week's Pulse.
>The attitude is probably quite common among your detractors, but it is still
>exciting to see that PRT is at this level in the public consciousness.
>I am planning to write a letter to the editor on this one. Unless you would
>prefer to write one. The Pulse website is at www.pulsetc.com
>
>The cartoon is attached.

 

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prt-talk/message/839

Thanks for getting this debate going with GPM. I’ve been promoting and advocating PRT now for about ten years now and I’ve heard all the arguments;proand con. What has been said here isn’t a statement of whether PRT is Green or not. The truth is that LRT has been here much longer and they’re usingfederalfunds to undercut any positive spin on PRT Among their tactics is to heavily lobby environmental groups about LRT and, in the process, try to destroyany credibility in a new and competing industry. Consequently, The Sierra Club and other “Green” organizations go the way of donations and pressure.
 
PRT is GREEN! An irony is that the Greens advocate sustainability and, at least fiscally, so do the Republicans. Love and politics make strange bedfellows.