If U are a PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT, U believe in a POSSIBLE Government that CAN build a

PersonalMultiModalModularMonorailMaglevTransit system that EVENTUALLY would allow U to live in CA, where the weather is as close to perfect as 1 can get MOST of the year (but the water is ALWAYS TOO FREAKING COLD for comfortable swimming), & own a private amphibious ski boat that U & your party can ride on the public guideways at 700 mph to a warm-water lake in Texas (i.e. Lake Travis), exit the guideway & drive onto the lake, & spend the day boat riding & wakeboarding. And when the day is over, U & your party can push the home button & drink your cocktails enclosed in the same vehicle while watching America rush by, docking into the side of your home some 3 hours later (NEVER having to stand in an airport line waiting for a TSA agent to scan your body).

If instead U are a doNOTHING CON, U want to "return" US to some MYTHOLOGICAL "better time" of LIMITED GOVERNMENT BEFORE S.S. & unions when the REALITY WAS THAT MOST PEOPLE WERE DIRT POOR.

Private enterprise blended with government structure (think Eisenhower's Interstate Highways UPDATED to the Internet of Transportation).

THERE IS ALWAYS A BETTER FUTURE, IF WE AMERICANS BELIEVE OUR GOVERNMENT CAN FACILITATE GOOD THINGS instead of believing our best days are behind US.

http://prpmt1.webs.com/systemdescription.htm

seems interesting..

In a Google search. The third is the web address in the OP.

The base address, webs.com is a free, build your own website place. That means anyone can go in create a page that looks semi professional and play at being a real business.

From the site: "PMT would be computer controlled travel in small 6 (eventually 1-24) - passenger vehicles suspended below a fixed maglev monorail with nonstop, origin to destination service. Short, branching tracks would allow passengers to board and exit at their individual destinations, by-passing any intermediate stops (unlike mass-transit systems)."

It sounds interesting, but since much of their efforts seem to be marketing crap. If it were a serious enterprise, wouldn't they have their own web address rather than a freebie pseudo site?

Edited to add - Besides, I would be more impressed if the OP could spell out words rather than emulating texting style writing.

Spam. So I'll just leave the thread to hopefully scroll on off.

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important role in our society, along with S.S., Medicare & unions in helping US to become a PROSPEROUS nation. I believe it is our BLEND of capitalism & social safety-nets & unions that have made US STRONG.

http://supratruth.newsvine.com/

Rather than a new transportation paradigm. I am more interested in seeing the new technology or a legitimate business model for a new take on current technology than seeing a business model that is all sales first, with no real investment in technology or infrastructure.

Emphasis on sales smells like a scam to me.

technology. This site is using a FREE WEB SERVICE to TRY to spread the concept. Yes there is a link to T-Shirts & mugs to ALSO SPREAD THE CONCEPT. Across the top of the page are links to other pages demonstrating the POSSIBILITIES of the technology and the companies working towards those ends. More hasn't been done ON THIS SITE because it is 1 individual (ME) working in his spare time to promote the concept.

Do U know the problem with trains? They have to STOP at EVERY station. PERSONAL Transit does NOT.

Maglev is a technology that can run on electricity much more efficiently than ANY other system. The electricity can come from MANY ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS, such as:

GarbageEnergyGenerators At Landfills Creating Ethanol & Electricity;
PowerTowers (SpiralWindTurbines & VerticalWindTurbineCylinders With ClosedSystemActiveStirlingSolarEnergyGenerators On Top);
And Wave&TidalEnergyGenerators.

We NEED a NEW transportation system that is flexible and a blend of Gov. guideways & public AND private vehicles.

How can ANY1 here have a problem with THAT?

there are plenty of links on the site about the technology & the concept. As a "business plan," it AIN'T. Your nose is out of wack if U think this smells like a sales scam. The only thing being sold here is the concept of a VERY MUCH NEEDED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.

& I am NO graphics artist so this is the best that I could come up with:



I would welcome ANY1 who could do a better job, as long as the intent is to show the overall flexibility of the system, from 6-person rented vehicles to single-vehicle ferries & EVENTUALLY private MultiModal vehicles.

Thus says a California desert dweller

If so, I will be glad to check it out.

I am in no way trying to dis CA; but coming from Houston, I truly miss warm water swimming, ESPECIALLY at night.

However, to the east is Lake Camanche (2:08). TO the south is San Luis Reservoir (1:40), and further south there is Nacimiento (3:21) and San Antonio (3.06)

If you are interested in warm water boating, you are seriously living in the wrong place

We NEED a system that will allow US to travel across our GREAT country QUICKLY & efficiently withOUT the hassels of our present systems.

Thank U for your responses though.

Many, many lakes near the SF Bay area. Many, many. They are not heated, so 'warm water lakes' are outside of my experience, but if you need hot springs, you have lots of those as well. Lots of them. Natural as well as developed sites. A vast spectrum.

The trip would have taken close to three days and the last, long leg would have been by bus.

We need rail.

Air travel is so uncomfortable. And increasingly expensive.

I do not like to fly, not at all.

project that was like from Southern FL to Northern FL or some relatively short distance? Meanwhile the rest of the world is zipping all over their countries in bullet trains (although one did derail in China the other day :scared:)

What is our fucking problem? What year is this? We are SO far behind in EVERYTHING! Except Apple. :7

As much as I'd love HSR and want it very badly, I confess I would spend less on airfare and gas. The corporations already crunched the numbers, I assure you.

There's a Amtrak station not far from here. (GA)
If I want to take a train to visit my folks down in FL, I first have to take a train to Washington DC!

Think that's bad? I have an elderly familiy member in FL that wants to go visit family in TX.
They are minutes from the Amtrak station.
To go from West Palm Beach Fl, they first have to go to Washington DC, then CHICAGO then finally to Austin.

Hmm. It's almost like that route was set by airline industry lobbyists.

But although they planned to re-instate the train from Jacksonville west (what was it called, Sunset Limited?) after it was repaired, Amtrack never has.

I live outside Tallahassee and would love to take a train trip to New Orleans and back. If the direct train route were in service, it would be a nice vacation for a long weekend. Now they have completely closed the Tallahassee train station and removed it from their lists. A couple of years ago when I was looking Amtrak still had the Sunset Limited in their schedule, so this is a disappointment!

That's one place we can go I guess.

OK, it's the Crescent - route: New York - Washington - Atlanta - New Orleans.

Stops in Toccoa, Gainesville, and Atlanta, GA. If you leave Toccoa at 6:15 am, Gainesville at 6:58 am, arrive at Atlanta at 8:13 am and leave at 8:38 am, you get to New Orleans at 7:32 pm that day. From Atlanta to NO is under $100. for a coach seat.

The full trip, New York to New Orleans is a day and a half - leave NY at 2:15 pm, arrive the next evening at NOLA. The return trip leave NOLA at 7 am, arrive NY just before 2 pm the next day. Cost is $263!

There are other routes between Washington or New York to New Orleans, but the Crescent is the most direct route.

http://tickets.amtrak.com/itd/amtrak

From Tallahassee these days we have to drive five or more hours to Jacksonville, further south along the East Coast or north into Georgia to catch a train. By the time we do that, we might as well drive the whole way.

It's not anywhere near as fast as a car but it beats a stagecoach any day of the week.

no text down here so don't bother reading it

bold text in your post.

Sid

KEY words or concepts is lost.

Hey, it is MY style; don't we Democrats CHERISH the INDIVIDUALITY of the INDIVIDUAL?

I certainly hope so.

your 'style' is an annoying and distracting affectation which makes the concepts you wish to share more difficult to pick out from the pile of verbal contrivances. Too bad as well, because the 'unusual fast train' subject is one of interest to me, and mag-lev is far from the craziest sounding of the possible systems. NY's very fist subway line, for example, was pneumatic and we could build more of that as well. But not discussing any of it in a 'style' evocative of telegram forms of the early 20th.

i had to give up.

but I can't take seriously anyone who can't manage the word "you." :shrug: Hint: You're not texting, you're writing.