Y’see, when I write:
And let’s be clear: Personal Rapid Transit seems to be a rather pie-in-the-sky proposal that’d crisscross cities with small rails for tiny, taxi-like rail cars whose destinations could be programmed for anywhere on the system, rather than shuttling back and forth on a single line. It’s utterly un-tested, and it’s the kind of thing that draws all sorts of fawning resolutions at caucus-time demanding government support, and its cost estimates (which are usually about 10% those of light rail lines per rail mile) strike this tech/engineering industry hanger-on as hopelessly pollyannaish.
… and you write a piece asking “Is Mitch Berg A [Personal Rail Transit] Pod Person?”, then the informed, logical reader might well say “Wow. You, gentle writer, are a vacuous bobblehead”.
Fortunately, your blog has no informed, logical readers, so you should be safe.
But thanks for your patronage – where “patronage” = “the never-ending shooting gallery of ineptitude you present”.
That is all.
Who said that???
Here’s the problem Mitch: you didn’t specifically say “PRT is the bane of humanity which must be eradicated like swine flu and communism!” Anything less than that and you are a pod person, a PRTista, a gadgetbahner. Welcome to the pod squad Mitch! The only way out is to stand before the committee and denounce PRT unconditionally while providing the names of all closet PRTistas you’ve encountered in your clandestine meetings.
🙂