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Press release: "skyTran is Considering Baltimore for its First US Assembly Plant." 9-28-2015
• 'Like LEGO'; test track completion in November? 9-30-2015
• "Alternative transportation plans build excitement, if not immediate transit systems" 10-2-2015
• "Futuristic pods pitched as answer to city transit woes." 10-6-2015
• In the Economic Times/Times of India, Sanders reiterates Israel prototype system "will be done in November.". Claims "the railroad" is skyTran's "biggest champion." 10-16-2015
• Times Of Israel: Demo won't happen until "early 2016" 10-27-2015
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• SkyTran SEC filing reports 100% of offering is $2.5 million from 1 investor 9-28-2015
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"Arnold under fire for pivoting on SMART" 5-6-2015
Meandering column on Marin Co. Supervisor Judy Arnold, once a skyTran backer, who won reelection supporting commuter line she once opposed.
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"Mayor Moshe Fadlon gave his approval for allocating the resources needed to advance the project, though the estimated amount is still unknown, and how much of that amount is still 'on paper.'"
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"Radical Transportation Projects Of The Past And Future" 2-11-2015
Forbes: "Skytran says tickets will sell for less than a bus fare. We doubt that."
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skyTran covered by CNN's Tomorrow Transformed - 1:43 video. 2-3-2015
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• Commenters break into familiar camps (e.g. 'neat idea', 'ugly', 'not going to happen', 'bombs & personal security', 'libertarian plot', 'autonomous cars are the answer') and land on misconceptions (e.g. 'can't be a total replacement for cars or conventional transit').
• Can you spot the sockpuppets of PRT designers and critics?
• Discussion thread at DailyKos.
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Curbed.com: SkyTran encounters Simpsons in Atlanta 9-30-2014
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skyTran CEO Jerry Sanders in-studio on FOX Business Channel. 9-22-2014
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skyTran (and maglev trains) at Govtech 7-23-2014
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Math professor advocating for skyTran in Canberra as the Australian capital seeks light rail line. 7-25-2014
• Smart Rail World: "The first components will be pre-assembled at skyTran's headquarters at the NASA Research Park in California. The rest will be constructed locally and the system should be running by the end of 2015"
• BBC: Test track at IAI will be a 500 meter loop
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skyTran CEO Jerry Sanders (misidentified as the system's inventor) was in Toulouse in March to meet with official from elevator company POMA. Meeting organized by 'Association of Friends Of skyTran,' which is seeking 15M Euro investment to bring skyTran's HQ and manufacturing to the back yard of Airbus. 6-9-2014
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Focus is on SkyTran; "They haven't sold a project and that makes me nervous. If it were viable, people would be beating their doors down."
• "Unfortunately the pod car never took off" Mountain View Voice 3-28-2014
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"Mountain View at a crossroads with pod cars" 3-15-2014
San Jose-area community could seek grant from federal authorities and corporations; some councillors concerned about backing just one vendor -- no comment from SkyTran.
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skyTran: Back to the future for Denver area transit. "Forty years ago metro Denver voters approved a sales tax for mass transit, with promotional materials at the time highlighting an advanced Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system that was going to put the region ahead of the rest of the world." ...
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...Sanders says he has the "full support" of Israel's finance and transportation ministries, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office of Alternative Fuels, the U.S. Commerce Department, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States. If true, that would help expedite the permitting process and make it easier to raise funds. Sanders says Tel Aviv is ideal because it's "one big traffic jam" and full of "technology-loving trend-setters."
That may be, but aside from a prototype used only to develop control software at NASA's Ames Research Center, SkyTran is completely unproven...
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io9: skyTran "really happening." "Tel Aviv is set to begin construction on the world's first magnetically levitating skyTran system of mass transit. Which is awesome because it's fine time that our cities started to look the way scifi says they're supposed to."
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