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What streets do you use for your short trips (under 5 miles)?
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Help spread the word. Encourage other Angeleno's to participate!
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JPods are networks of Horizontal-Elevators JPods feeder networks can connect to existing mass transit and ET3 networks for high-speed travel between networks. It costs about 56 cents a mile to operate a car. JPods operate at about 4 cents per vehicle-mile so the cost savings can pay for building the networks without costing the taxpayers any money. The networks can be operated without government subsidies. The networks operate at about 260 passenger-miles per gallon. The energy efficiency is sufficient that solar collectors mounted over the rails gather 5,000 to 30,000 vehicle-miles of power per mile of rail per day. Short ranged travel in Los Angeles can be powered within a solar budget. The networks can be built at the rate the Transcontinental Railroads were built in the 1860’s, at about 3 to 10 miles of rail per day. The construction and operation of networks in LA will create thousands of jobs paid for by oil savings. JPods are a version of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT or PodCars). The PRT network built at Morgantown, WV as a solution to the 1973 Oil Embargo has delivered 110 million injury-free, oil-free passenger-miles. If the City of Los Angeles will grant access to rights of way to deploy solar powered transportation networks, systems like JPods and ET3 can change the lifeblood of our economy from oil to ingenuity.
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