The City of Portland today is beginning to discuss the implementation of their Personal Rapid Transit system. Wow! What an exciting project. The benefits are going to be huge and it's gonna take many blog posts to fully discuss them. But for now, I'm just excited about this beginning.
Check out this URL for information about what a Personal Rapid Transit system is: http://www.superstructgame.org/SuperstructView/254
It's gonna be hard to boot-strap in this system, but once it's in place we're not gonna know how we lived without it! Especially with all the new people. Our Transit system is good but not "millions of new people" good. Traffic delays have already reached historic highs ... daily.
But with the benefit of being able to reduce the amount of land dedicated to transportation we're gonna have more urban gardening acreage than we know what to do with. Another big space-saver are going to be the storage warehouses allowing people to shift to smaller, denser residences but still have access to large volumes of safe, private storage. More on this later.
Alright, I'm off to the public feedback hearing. I hope to see some of you there.
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Really looking forward to hearing about the results of that meeting ...
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