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Contributed by Fred Camino on February 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Do you have what it takes to be the next Miss Traffic?
- LAist reminds us that if your company pays for parking and you don’t drive, they owe you the cash for that space
- USC Master Plan has some decent ideas about pedestrian safety and some whacky ideas about mass transit (eg. Personal Rapid Transit over light rail)
- Metro introduces “Miss Traffic” contest, aka Public Transit American Idol
- Mayor V. tries to cut some car out of his diet… can he break the addiction?
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in response to the LAist piece. i wish you all the best of luck in getting your company to actually fulfill this. its a year and 20 to 30 some emails later since i first found out about this law and i still haven’t received acknowledgment, let alone compensation. but i still stress for all to give up their car and try and get their places of employment to pay them if they can. just be aware you’ll be pissing off all of HR because it means they’d have to actually do something for once. yes, i’m still bitter about it.
I’m excited to see whether Villaraigosa stays true to his word. Hopefully people will be persuaded by his actions– if someone who has countless appointments and meetings to go to all over this city can create one day a week where he can take public transit to work, surely the average person can figure out how to do it.
Personal Rapid Transit: The preferred mode of transportation for the lazy.
Light Rail Now has a great article debunking just about every myth that supports PRT.
PRT. lolz. fkn usc.
Let me state for the record that Prof. Burke’s opinions on PRT do not necessarily represent those held by the other transportation faculty in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
Beyond that, I ain’t sayin’ a damn thing more.
You always walk that fine line Pete.
The Light Rail Now “article” on PRT is a deeply flawed. Rebuttals to it can be found here, here, and here.
After you read and digest those Narinda, you might ask yourself why LRN has continued to flog this article without even acknowlegding any of the criticisms of it, and if you can really trust any ‘reasearch’ put out by such an organization.
A far more competent and balanced study of PRT can be found in the New Jersey PRT viability study - it was prepared by actual transit professionals.
I’ve had a alternative transit idea for a while now. Two words:
Zip Lines
That’s right. A comprehensive city-wide network of zip lines. Private, economical, eco-friendly, and fun to boot - zip line transit has the potential to revolutionize mobility. Imagine commuting from you job in Downtown to your casa in Santa Monica, suspended 100 feet in the air on your very own zip line to the sea. Want to stop off for groceries? Just let go! In the zip line future, the entire city is padded with trampolines. Boing! Pick up the ingredients wifey asked for and then bounce back up to grab a passing zip line harness. Any potential problems with such a system can easily be ignored, because if you understand the concept of zip lines, you realize that a key part of the concept is that it is flawless.
My alternative alternative transit idea is an extensive network of lazy rivers. The low cost of innertube ownership and the universal love of lazy rivers makes this the transit mode for everyone.
The good thing about zip lines is that it’s easy to enforce the no food rule.
Anybody have a list of companies in LA that provide a stipend to their employees that don’t use their parking spot?