Because we haven’t done one of these in a while; a Thought Experiment: In the not-too-distant future a group of transit geeks invent the CompuTrans 3000*. It is the world’s most advanced method of analyzing and predicting the success or failure of a planned transit initiative based upon a series of metrics. It quickly establishes a...
A Thought Experiment: For the last two years CableRailGyroCopter Inc. has developed projects in 10 North American cities. Each were to be purchased by the public sector for the purpose of providing public transit. For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume each of the projects is two kilometers long and will cost $100 million USD...