{"id":932,"date":"2021-04-09T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/?p=932"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:45:37","slug":"comments-on-dumbarton-corridor-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/comments-on-dumbarton-corridor-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments on Dumbarton Corridor Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subject: Public Input to Dumbarton Rail Corridor Project
\nTo: dumbartonrail@samtrans.com<\/p>\n

San Mateo County Transit District Board members,<\/p>\n

During my 17 years in the electric transportation business, I came across another class of electric transport: Personal Rapid Transit (PRT). Over the years, I learned a lot about PRT and other advanced transit systems.<\/p>\n

Thus, I was excited to hear of the Public Meeting held on March 15th about the Dumbarton Rail Corridor proposal. This is a worthy project I hope to see completed as soon as possible. While you are in the process of making decisions about which technology to use, I would like to share my knowledge and viewpoint which aligns with some of the consultant\u2019s data regarding Autonomous Vehicle Transit (AVT). While I realize project decision makers are being bombarded with opinions and ideas, I believe this read will be worth your valuable time.<\/p>\n

These are the main points elaborated below:<\/p>\n

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  1. AVT vehicles comes in large, medium and small sizes.<\/li>\n
  2. The small size, Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), creates a boom in transit use when included with existing transportation options.<\/li>\n
  3. Because PRT vehicles (cabs) bypass all stations between the rider\u2019s starting and ending station, every ride is an express ride.<\/li>\n
  4. At the origin station, even more time is saved because awaiting PRT cabs are ready to go—which adds another level of personal security much appreciated by many people these days.<\/li>\n
  5. PRT has substantial advantages in real estate purchases, parking structure costs and O&M. The presentation excludes all three.<\/li>\n
  6. PRT can do the job for dramatically less cost. Read 4-page submission at https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/SamTrans-Dumbarton.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Subject: Public Input to Dumbarton Rail Corridor Project To: dumbartonrail@samtrans.com San Mateo County Transit District Board members, During my 17 years in the electric transportation business, I came across another class of electric transport: Personal Rapid Transit (PRT). Over the years, I learned a lot about PRT and other advanced transit systems. Thus, I was … Comments on Dumbarton Corridor Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}