As congestion worsens, our elected representatives appear to be without a solution. Perhaps a public conversation between informed and caring members of the community will clarify for them, and others, what is going on – and what we can do moving forward.<\/p>\n
In Santa Cruz County, progress has been made with private micro-transit (bikes, e-bikes, and scooters). Now, two new technologies promise widespread community benefits: automated vehicles (robo-taxis) and Personal Rapid Transit (PRT, or podcars).<\/p>\n
Read full text.<\/a><\/p>\n In Santa Cruz County, daily and seasonal congestion stalls economic growth and community vitality. While progress has been made with private micro-transit (bikes, e-bikes, and scooters), two new technologies promise even bigger impacts: automated vehicles (robo-taxis) and Personal Rapid Transit (PRT, or podcars).<\/p>\n A community conversation is needed about weaving these new technologies into our transportation tapestry. Santa Cruz Personal Rapid Transit (SC-PRT)<\/a>, Silicon Valley Clean Cities Coalition (SVCCC),<\/a> and LoopWorks<\/a> are organizing this public forum to discuss whether the promised value of adding robo-taxis and podcars is worth the expected costs.<\/p>\n Read full text.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Help Elected Representatives See the Future of Local Transportation As congestion worsens, our elected representatives appear to be without a solution. Perhaps a public conversation between informed and caring members of the community will clarify for them, and others, what is going on – and what we can do moving forward. In Santa Cruz County, … Does Santa Cruz County Need Podcars?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Join the Public Forum on the Future of Local Transportation<\/h2>\n