{"id":985,"date":"2021-06-03T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/?p=985"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T04:37:15","slug":"sierra-club-supports-milpitas-prt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/sierra-club-supports-milpitas-prt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Club Supports Milpitas PRT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their letter of support, the <a href=\"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sierra-Club-LP-2021May24-Letter-re-PRT.pdf\">Sierra Club<\/a> stated:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our Transportation Committee\u2019s review of the project and governance structure show that it will both involve and benefit the residents of Milpitas. \u2026 In addition, with 12 stations serving the high-density area around the BART Transit Center, this transit investment by LoopWorks could support all 5 goals of the City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/milpitasplanreview.altaplanning.site\/#\/\"> DRAFT Trail, Pedestrian, and Bicycle Master Plan<\/a> (Executive Summary, page 5). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As stated there, \u201cSafer bicycle and pedestrian connections to the BART station and other transit options are particularly important to better serve the growing number of jobs in the city.\u201d \u2026 we see PRT as a technology that could provide clean, quiet, and responsive public transportation that\u2019s available 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sierra-Club-LP-2021May24-Letter-re-PRT.pdf\">Click here for the full letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their letter of support, the Sierra Club stated: Our Transportation Committee\u2019s review of the project and governance structure show that it will both involve and benefit the residents of Milpitas. \u2026 In addition, with 12 stations serving the high-density area around the BART Transit Center, this transit investment by LoopWorks could support all 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/sierra-club-supports-milpitas-prt\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Sierra Club Supports Milpitas PRT<\/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-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}