Y’see, when I write:<\/p>\n
And let\u2019s be clear: Personal Rapid Transit seems to be a rather pie-in-the-sky proposal that\u2019d 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.\u00a0 It\u2019s utterly un-tested, and it\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
… and you write a piece asking “Is Mitch Berg A [Personal Rail Transit]\u00a0Pod Person?”, then the informed, logical reader might well say “Wow.\u00a0 You, gentle writer, are a vacuous bobblehead”.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, your blog has no informed, logical readers, so you should be safe.<\/p>\n
But thanks for your patronage – where “patronage” = “the never-ending shooting gallery of ineptitude you present”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Y’see, when I write: And let\u2019s be clear: Personal Rapid Transit seems to be a rather pie-in-the-sky proposal that\u2019d 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.\u00a0 It\u2019s utterly un-tested, and it\u2019s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}