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Engineers: Have doubts on queueing issues or congestion in single lane systems ? How we are rapidly decongesting the endpoint of the tube, where Hallicarts would normally build up... Check out an image of switching tracks in a rail system without a switch ! Press Release upcoming . For freelancers and journalists, 55 critical answers ..The two inventors who started it all. Early cartoons mildly hostile to the system! Look at some thin structures carrying passenger vehicles. Patent portions showing difference in our approach. Yes, electric cars can go VERY fast... Are you tired of these daily subway events ? Here are urban transit alternatives compared. Everybody's first question:
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Other Provision of the California Hallitube Initiative. Combined referendum
image gallery as quick overview . Check here what yielding lights for cars are all
about. No more delays because of rubbernecking (slowing at
accident sites) on passage of the Hallitube Initiative. Will
you soon be able to see past SUVs?
Have you ever been behind a bus that first stopped
to disembark passenger and then a few feet later,
stopped separately
at a stop light ? Are you aware that there is a multi-
billion
dollar plan for a high-speed rail initiative
which will not improve your commute ? Join us in
the fight
to allocate some of this money to increase your leisure time.
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It gets more
exciting: With
simplified buses and
cheap driver surveillance equipment, can select
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![]() ![]() Tubes end directly in office buildings, and in dedicated homes in suburbs with a low cost, widely distributed endpoint structure. Where there was previously only one suburban lightrail station to which users needed to commute, Hallitubes wind their way into each individual neighborhood. Carts are stored in stacking towers and on lawns, and you take off to work close to your own home, exiting at your own employer or a nearby firm. An apartment or condominium complex may store as few as 40 carts, so space is not a great issue. We also are actively looking at a non-rail design, where the cart is stablized by sidewheels. Non rail designs rise in value as the oil price rises, because the conversion of the cart to street use becomes cheaper. (Highway lanes get embedded powerlines (image) as traffic clears due to quadrupling prices. |
Competing/Augmenting Approaches Inner city driving charges: In London, driving in the city carries a hefty charge. A good idea if safe, fast and comfortable alternate commuting systems are available.
If you are in San Francisco, visit the Hallidie
Museum, on Mason Street. |
Inside a Hallitube (Windows not shown)
Univ. of Cinncinatti's
minimobiles Gondola-suspended cabin-PRT. Works, but does not fit under overpasses, and therefore is not highway compatible. Hanging gondolas are large and require true station construction, heavy wind resistance and dropping of cable at lowest point between poles mean they could run only at about half the speed of Hallicarts, and design assumes heavy automation.
Regular cabin-based PRT: Many
installed systems, we analyze the differences between us and them
in some detail here. New hybrids and
power cells driven cars are all well and
good, but the real issue is creating new roadspace.
We are running out of grid.L Links covering competing systems. Notice what they all have in common: Multi-passenger vehicles combined with expensive heavy support structures, waiting for vehicles, complex customized electronics , huge pricetags, and construction timeframe. Even if funds were infinite, these systems would not be thin and cheap enough to create a second-level tube structure winding into every neighborhood. Links to well-intentioned over-engineered solutions: http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/ http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/itrans2.htm http://www.atsltd.co.uk/ http://www.planning.unc.edu/program/trbdrt.pdf Greetings to you from Halliman
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