The GreenplanetFM Podcast with Tim Lynch

Every large city on earth is gripped with limits to growth. Especially cars in gridlock and clogging motorways and roads. We witness it every day at rush hour as we sit frustrated in traffic, wondering when will this increasing problem ever be solved?Enter A New Idea:The concept of affordable personal rapid transport pods, travelling above ground that whisk you across the city along an environmentally benign 2-directional elevated guide-way to your destination, in comfort, safely, swiftly and cheaply.Is this possible? What would be the cost? Is it environmentally benign?The system is called the Metropolitan Individual System of Transportation on Elevated Rail (MISTER).With over $3 Billion allocated for a tunnel from Britomart in Auckland to Epsom, are the rate payers willing to dig further into their pockets for an outdated transport system, when that amount of money would cover the totality of suburban Auckland with a Personal Rapid Transport System?The fact that even today the NZ Government is balking at su