Elevated transit v.s. Road transit
This Startup Wants To Replace Cars (And Subways) With Elevated Pods; as published by FastCompany, 9 May 2018. Transit X’s plan would set up fast-moving, solar-powered personal transit (PRT) to whisk you anywhere you wanted to go without stops within the network.
"A startup called Transit X argues that we need a different form of mass transit to get people to stop driving. The company’s system, which it says will soon be deployed in the Philippines, will use networks of lightweight, automated, solar-powered pods. Each small pod car is large enough for up to five people, and suspended from a narrow elevated rail 14 feet (or higher) above the ground..."
in pod sizes for people or freight and handicapped (on demand)
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"...the system would reduce or eliminate most of the costs of public transportation–it doesn’t need land or drivers or fuel, the simple vehicles need less maintenance than other vehicles, and construction is far cheaper than building something like a subway system. The company believes its system is cheap enough to finance itself. The company will pay cities 5% in fees and taxes for the right to an easement for the space it uses. The startup plans to demonstrate a pilot system in Boston in late 2018."
LS comment: The CRD "company" could be Victoria BC Transit or Wilson?