And presto-chango: a revitalized MARTA and real public transportation in Atlanta! From what I’ve read of some of the narrow rail passes the Beltline will have to navigate, this just might be solution anyway. (Cheesy wmv video here.)
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03.01.06 | 5 Comments
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Ever notice how car commercials always show a lone driver on an empty road? Cars are always moving in those commercials, even though you know the reality is not quite like that. The PRT video is the same deal. The reality with PRT is that as more people use the system, the system quickly clogs up, especially at the busier stations.
To be fair, there isn’t any PRT reality just yet.
And for that sort of clogging to happen, a Beltline PRT would have to be pretty popular indeed. With just one big transit loop, it couldn’t get all that clogged anyway—even at the busier stations, which would be built bigger. If we added an Emory loop and/or a south DeKalb loop, I could see the intersections getting a bit backed up.
But I hope we wouldn’t dismiss a good idea just because of the potential annoyances that we’d only see if it became wildly successful.
Think of the benefits of a clogged PRT Beltline: With that many cars off the road, air quality would improve bunches, and the roads (ITP, anyway) would be as unpopulated as on Sunday mornings. I could live with that kind of problem.
But of course, as you say, nothing quite lives up to the commercial.
Oh, wouldn’t it be so dreamy if Atlanta actually had a great rail system??
Interesting choice of words, Duane. ;-) I’m afraid it may never be anything more than a dream.
yeah… too bad. I wonder why so many are against the expansion of ACTUAL public transit in ATL? Oh yeah! They don’t want the poor coming to their neighborhoods! Ugh…