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electric field array to lift and transport people just above ground level-with no moving parts except the person moving-is a more logical parameter for local and regional travel. Such a criterion is possible, yet with the one-size fits all approach of inefficiency with buses, cars and large trucks on concrete and asphalt highways inefficiency has become a religious cult of extravagant waste making some critters happiest. In mass produced dependency upon inefficeint infrastructure of an ecologically non-renewable kind humanity paints itself into a corner led by politicians without ecological economic reason or an independent ability to lead away from the vast elephant mountain of a donkey-dung verisimilitude, paving over paradise.

Public transportation cannot be free without substantial efficiency increases in it's structure. Transportation requires conformity to the laws of thermodynamics and that means that energy must be spent to develop, create and maintain any public transportation system. The public should prefer a preponderance of renewable energy and resources invested within any transportation system in order to increase its efficiency.

Transportation is explicitly a factor of macro-economic allocation of resources. If Columbus had a super-tanker he would have brought a lot more people, and if ancient Eurasians of 30,000 B.C. had the advantage of fuel-celled jet skis and dry suits they might have followed along the Pacific shore from Asia to South America long ago. The form of energy and method of transportation radically shapes the way people live and where they live and work.

Sure a free transportation system in many major cities would attract commuters away from automobiles especially when gasoline prices are high. In order to encourage a method to support a mass utilitarian public good it might be a practical measure to install free mass transportation systems in select locals during times of necessary social readjustment that cannot be accomplished through market forces manipulated by cartels in energy and automobile production. In New Orleans mass transportation systems are provided at no charge when emergency hurricane storms approach-if economic emergencies are taken to be of a serious enough nature that free public transportation systems should be developed to draw people away from automobiles then it may be possible to implement goals toward the creation of free public transportation systems in select localities.

The Los Angeles light rail

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