Ian Bicking blogging about something different today, the subject of mass transit. With our government trying to push for better public transportation, I found this subject to be interesting (for me to blog about it). Even city such as Chicago still got problem with their public transit system:-
People often say “we need a good transit system like in New York or Chicago”. I don’t know the NYC transit system well, but I can say without a doubt that Chicago mass transit sucks. The traffic sucks too, as does parking, so the mass transit is relatively less sucky than elsewhere. But it still sucks. Please don’t use us as a model.
Then he pointed out about Personal Rapid Transit:-
PRT is an automated transportation system where passengers ride in 2 to 4 person vehicles on elevated guideways non-stop from where they started all the way to their destination. The guideways provide a network not unlike our current system of freeways except that the vehicles on the guideways are all computer controlled. This allows optimum use of the time and space, (no traffic jams, no accidents) and all merging and exiting to off-line stations is handled automatically.
Sounds like a pretty good idea. It’s still far away to get here (it’s not even implemented anywhere in the world) and for now we just hope that they would add more routes to the current LRT system in KL and me could just hope that LRT system would be a reality here in JB. Hey they mentioned about it in paper sometimes ago ! :)
