Santa Cruz Pod Cars?
Firms in Poland and Korea are running pod cars on large-scale test tracks, and there are plans to build a system for Masdar City near Abu Dhabi. Here in the States, Ithaca wants to make pod cars part of a long-term transportation program, and officials in Santa Cruz, California, have commissioned the design of a solar-powered pod system that would run between downtown and the beach.
Wha? Really? When? This is the first I heard of it, even though a giant hundreds of million dollar low demand solar powered mass transit system for only a few blocks would be right up The SC City Council’s alley. Googling around all I found was some talk about about “ultra light rail” back in 1996(!) and the SolTrain from 2001. So yeah. It’s dead.
Tags: infrastructure, santacruz