Your Tax Dollars Promoting Rep. Mark Olson and Michele Bachmann's PRT Pod Boondoggle

[Avidor]

The State sponsors the Living Green Expo which is supposed to inform the public about the environment.

Naturally, the bad guys are going to try to sneak their toxic messages into the Expo... and it looks as if the anti-transit people have snuck the CPRT in this year.

Please write to Jeff Ledermann and complain about it.

Here is my emaill:

To: [e-mail]

Jeff Ledermann,

Please don't allow the CPRT at the Living Green Expo:

http://www.livinggreen.org/exhibit.cfm?id=-406398758

PRT is not a feasible transportation system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2NO68tDdWQ

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/prt-techno-dream.php

The CPRT is an for anti-transit group that has worked with anti-transit politicians like Rep. Mark Olson.

The CPRT website still has a PRT plan by former Minneapolis Councilman Dean Zimmermann:

http://cprt.org/Minneapolis/default.htm

Zimmermann is serving a sentence for bribery. He tried to use PRT to scam the government's witness out of $250,000:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHWZl1eif8E

Here is a recent letter to the editor one of founding members of the CPRT wrote to the Star Tribune recently attacking LRT:

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http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/17563559.html

Letter of the day April 14: Pawlenty's veto pen sharpens transit debate

Congratulations to Gov. Tim Pawlenty! This time he got another one right, and it's a big one. He opposes the construction of the nonsensical Central Corridor light-rail line.

So-called "light" rail is anything but light. Downtown streets had to be strengthened to support the massive trains when the Hiawatha Line was first constructed. In addition, LRT is horrendously costly, hopelessly inefficient, extremely hazardous -- and it gums up the flow of automobile traffic through a wide swath on either side of the right of way.

Buses are far more flexible, efficient and economical. And then there is a 21st-century technology for urban transit, known as Personal Rapid Transit, or PRT. If you don't know what it is, we have experts available who can explain it with great clarity. It's a remarkable story, and I hope someone is interested.

RAY WARNER, EDINA

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Please don't let the CPRT in the Living Green Expo,

Thank you,

-Ken Avidor

[Avidor]

1. The MPCA Living Green Expo Guy Responds (sort of)

Begin forwarded message:

Mr. Avidor,

Thanks for your interest in the Living Green Expo and for the information about PRT. We will take it into consideration in management and future decision-making of the event .

Thanks,

Jeff Ledermann
Living Green Team Leader
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
520 Lafayette Rd N
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-215-0236
[e-mail]
www.pca.state.mn.us
www.livinggreen.org

I wonder if they will have Rep. Mark Olson there pitching PRT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lY2UWZOMw

Olson's press release on The Heartland Institute's global warming skeptic "seminar":

http://www.repmarkolson.com/

Maybe they'll have Bachmann's favorite registered lobbyist for moribund would-be PRT vendor TAxi 200 Corp. Ed Cain making a pitch for PRT there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMcDiESzpro