Mass Transit Option : A Coming Revolution - SkyTran

Innovation will save us - high speed trains and trolleys will destroy urban life as there won't be anyone left to pay the bill for more special ways to end fossil fuels. There are other reason as well and 'cloistering' is one of them as the coming urban nightmare demand for high-rise living comes to town. People living cheek to cheek. revolution

The suburbs have to go as they can't be controlled and taxed as easily as grouped people in urban settings.

The Bargain Mass Transit Option
By Lloyd Bentsen

SkyTran is an aerial mass transit system with small cars that magnetically glides on elevated tracks 20 to 30 feet above the ground. The cars can hold up to four people and travel at 60mph. SkyTran has been in development over the past five years and is just beginning to run a pilot program in Tel Aviv.

Compared with most mass transit options, SkyTran is a bargain for cities planning mass transit or expanding their existing systems.

For instance, the city of Dallas has a large light rail system (DART) that was recently expanded to double in size to over 90 miles of track. The $2.5 billion expansion cost $56 million per mile ($35 million per kilometer). In addition, the $7.3 million cost for each rail car that holds 209 passengers gives a cost of $35,000 per passenger.

SkyTran, however, costs only $13 million per mile ($8 million per kilometer). The small cars only cost $30,000 at a price of $7,500 per passenger. The city of Dallas could have saved almost $2 billion in light rail mass transit expansion if SkyTran had been an available choice in mass transit.