What if you could make a call at any time on your cell phone and have a vehicle come to you within minutes, take you to your local destination, and cost about as much as a bus ride? Allen Hancock's notion of demand-responsive transit fills the gap between the private automobile and public transit.
Rather than fixed routes and schedules, smaller vehicles guided by intelligent software with gps (geographic positioning system), circulate to where riders are and want to go. Flexible, efficient, low-cost, it uses existing vehicles and roads. Where's the town that will implement this exciting pilot project?
Comment by: PT (David Alexander) (Feb-16-2009) Web site
Moxey, or Money? Just kidding... well, we do need new transport of all kinds, and the visionaries (right or wrong) are jumping in to fill the gap.
You deserve the nomination, Linda. And here is how I explained the name "SlogBite": in running a blog, first we slog along, then finally the audience bites into the great information. "First you slog, then they bite." Hopefully we are in the biting stage.
Comment by: linda (Linda Rembowski) (Feb-15-2009) Web site
It won't be in my little rural town in Texas but I could see it working very well in cities like New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, etc. An idea that could work within 6 months for anyone with some moxey.
BTW, thank you so much for the nomination over at Slogbite. It is very much appreciated.
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The Yuba Gals live in rural Nevada City and their business is named for the nearby South Yuba River, a part of the Wild and Scenic river system in California. They live on 160 acres of forest land, in a 1500 square-foot off-grid home using about 10% of the electricity of the average American home (including home office). Their home is heated by a wood stove using deadfall wood from their property. Propane heats the cookstove, on-demand water heater and backup generator (needed only during gray-day periods in winter). Not yet energy independent, but moving in that direction!
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