Hallitubes provide the carrying
capacity of lightrail at only 12% of the cost,
because only a fraction of the real estate has to be acquired,
and because the vehicle cost per passenger is much lower.
Endpoints are corporations, malls and residential
complexes. No station construction is necessary.GLASS-HOUSE FINANCE - Public Interest Project Note: We DO NOT solicit funds from the public, only from large venture capital firms, and well known individual investors, which we list here. If you have been contacted for money on behalf of this project, or (worse) have actually given funds, contact your local District Attorney's . office at once, because we did not get anything ! This year alone California. financial fraud exceeded 300 million dollars. |
What are
Hallitubes ? Have doubts on queueing
issues in single lane systems ? Press
Release with nine most freq. questions .More
details
and diagrams on Hallitubes. For freelancers and journalists,
30
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.
Venture capital firms - please contact us for a presentation with animations
we cannot show here. Yes, electric cars
can go VERY fast... Features unrelated to the tube portions of the California
initiative: 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.
How many tubes exactly can you squeeze under a modern overpass
- see image.
The only
factor that could halt the initiative (!). Do you live in
a large metropolitan area ? Are you tired of these daily
subway events ? Here are urban transit alternatives compared.
Everybody's first question: 
Will the referendum contain a provision
forcing you to do a "minihonk"
on left turn light-changes ? Station-based live annunciator
boards for buses as part of the initiative. Compare
Hallitubes to other transit solutions. Biolungs
attached: Horizontal greenery gives Halllitubs an eco edge. Want
to zip with your car through congested cities ? Support the referendum
with its novel
MOPs ! (Minimalist overpasses). Why Hallitubes reunite
the blue and red states. How will you get to
your Hallitube endpoint ? Totally new: Modification of traffic
rules based on driver-age. Standardization and shortening of handling
of street-proximal
suicides and police chases,
with funds for novel car-stopping
techniques. Ever gotten stuck in a shopping mall parking lot at lunchtime
with cars unable to exit. Vote for us and you will get cheap microflyovers
for sedans, allowing you to exit quickly. It gets more exciting:
With simplified
buses and cheap driver surveillance equipment, can select passengers
become drivers (for vast savings to the transit system ?) How can the
handicapped be made more mobile individually without depending on complex
customized busses ? - take a look at the stair-cane.TM
. How
do the physics of the pinning
force in stabilizing repelling magnets promise elegant enhancements
to Hallitube ? A typical morning commute.. |
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Gas prices quadrupling ? "Peak oil" phase ? Empty highways as people pool
into improptu cabs and cease single driver-travel ? No more need for
tubes ? Halleycarts provide tubeless
individual transportation on dedicated highway lanes as automobiles remain
undriven. And finally a complete summary of the referendum.
It is all happening here in California - the novelty-spring
for the globe.. Contact us. 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 own 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. Rider's view from inside the tube. Two features of this image are already outdated: the cables on the right fall away under use of the new low-weight electromotors, and we are actively looking at a non-rail design. The cart could be supported on metal boards and stabilized through sidewheels. More Images |
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At the bottom are 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.
A note on flexcars.This is generally good scheme, cars are used for $ 9 per hour and left in place, like a micro-term rental, such as Avis used to have in Chicago. These fleets need to be altered to contain more used than new: cars: Enterprise will rent you new cars for $9.95 per day. An additional issue is that there is no car check in, or check out, so damage is difficult to attribute and has to be born by all users. Finally, road space is finite so even if there is more parking available due to not bringing in cars from a distance, the cars still fill grid space when in transit. Inner city driving charges: ABC News reported recently on London, where driving in the city carries a hefty charge. One should keep in mind that the "high-end" commuter lightrail is already crowded, so this approach could probably not absorb a quarter of the drivers if it were implemented. We do favor forced cashless transit. In Hong Kong 20 people board a bus in the same time it take 8 to board a bus in the US. This is all due to pre-purchasing electronic cards which need not be removed from one's wallet. The new compressed air engines, hybrids and power cells are all well and good, but the real issue is creating new roadspace. We are running out of grid. 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 |
