Originally Posted by
dwbstr
All this discussion of the problems of public transit make me wonder if there is anything in the ideas of Gary Stark's PRT and others promoting radically different systems that would make sense or whether they would just open up another set of problems.
I saw a thread on it from a while back but a search didn't turn up what I was reading.
I think the proposal to replace all cars with public transit would be too radical to be popular. Using public transit to reduce road congestion and sprawl is a more conservative prospect, yet how many people still react against it as if it was something out of 1984?
The conformity vs. diversity contrast of this picture from the prt website seems like it would terrorize people into worshipping existing auto-dominance purely out of individualism:
