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PATSi
Posted 06/10/2010 by 1transitman1 in Mass Transportation | Submit idea in this category

PATSi is a public transit system that uses the carpool lanes of freeways exclusively. The stations can be modified to allow private toll vehicles to have ingress and egress to the lanes also.
It is an intermediate and long distance transit system that transports passengers to and from the on/off ramp near their origination and destination. These five to twenty five mile trips on the freeway are subject to freeway conditions and make arrival times unpredictable.
PATSi is a twenty hour a day system that will take people to their destinations in any direction spontaneously like their cars. Passengers will be boarded within ten minutes maximum and will not stop more than one time during their journey. Each passenger on the eight passenger HOV will sit in their own compartment and have TV, Radio for entertainment. They will be able to use their computers for work, call friends or clients, or even sleep if they want. A video system on board will allow them to preview their destinations for surface traffic transit or local merchants.
There is a video of the system operating on the Company Website:
www.patsidirect.com that demonstrates the effectiveness of the system.
In addition the system will replace and exceed the sales tax revenues derived from auto sales tax revenue that so many cities depend on for their budgets.
Paul Jones-President
Public Auto Transit Systems, Inc

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eric (09/17/2010): Haha no, ingress and egress are the ways in and out of something... Funny you said that, because someone else had already asked it on Wiki Answers...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_an_egress_bird

ragartragart (09/17/2010): I'm a birder myself. I was only joking, my friend. lol

ragartragart (09/17/2010): Oh, btw, I forgot to tell you that the bird is called an egret. ":.)

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Posted by ragartragart
09/21/2010

transports passengers to and from the on/off ramp near their origination and destination

So then I walk the rest of the way? It only stops once with 8 passengers? During ruch hour, you can pick up people all over town in less than 10 minutes? OK, I don't want to walk to work, everyone wants to stop and do something on the way, and even in the best of conditions, you couldn't make it to my house in 10 minutes from the freeway. You may as well start a taxi or limo service instead.

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