[sustran] Re: More on Portland and metros

[Jerry Schneider]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Wendell Cox wrote:

> More on Portland to be published....
>
> If you cant get people to jobs, you are not going to be able to get them
> elsewhere. Getting them nhd to nhd without going through downtown is
> crucial, and will not be achieved by anything less than a dense grid of
> frequently operating services... 15 minute headways won't do if you want to
> be auto competitive.

Sounds like a job for Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) to me - with headways
far lower than 15 minutes, non-stop service station-to-station, etc.
See my ITT website for details.

- Jerry Schneider

   - Innovative Transportation Technologies website:
     http://faculty.washington.edu/~jbs/itrans