Perry Up by 9 in New UT/TT Poll | 5/23/10
Republican Rick Perry leads Democrat Bill White by 9 percentage points — 44 percent to 35 percent — in the 2010 race for governor, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
Those numbers are identical to the results of a "fantasy race" between White and Perry in the February UT/Tribune poll, which was taken before Democratic and Republican primary voters selected the two men as their nominees. This time, 15 percent said they don't know yet whom they'll vote for, and 7 percent said they'd prefer "someone else." That last finding could be consequential: Libertarians ...
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mh
Seems like this offers very few benefits for those of us who already have personal rapid transit: cars.
garypenn
PRT, small automated electric vehicles operating on dedicated, elevated quideways is an idea that has been incubating for more than forty years and now has a large number of manifestations worldwide. A good Texas-based introduction to the range of ideas being discussed is at http://www.acprt.org/. ACPRT stands for Austin Citizens for Personal Rapid Transit. It predates and is independent of Mr. Garriott's website http://www.austinprt.com/ although it does have a link to an audio interview with the computer games guru and space traveler. Another website with a wealth of information about a very wide range of innovated transportation ideas is Professor Emeritus Jerry Schnieder's web site at the University of Washington: http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/ . Visiting that one after hearing about PRT for the first time can be rather overwhelming but does illustrate how many alternatives there are out there.
As to MH's comment about what is in automated guideway transport for car drivers, some of the answers are: reductions in noise, air pollution, greenhouse gases, accidents and an opportunity to speed over the daily traffic jam. To me the really attractive feature is the potential ability to take a "horizontal elevator" to where I am going without having to deal with other auto drivers' raging emotions.
Gary in Austin
adaviddelcolle
Another fine example of a PRT system is in Morgantown, West Virginia. The elevated railway connects West Virginia University's separate campuses and has been a huge success.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Personal_Rapid_Transit