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Presented
� CITY�OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
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Request for Information on the Feasibility of
Personal Rapid Transit in S� Paul
WHEREAS, Personal Rapid Transit is an innovative transit technology that may increase c ention and
tourism business; and
WHEREAS, Personal Rapid Transit may provide an alternative method for 'eving congestion and
dispersing traffic from major events; and
WHEREAS, Personal Rapid Transit might serve as a circula , making an eventual LRT and commuter
rail connection to St. Paul more successful; and
WHEREAS, there is a strong prospect that a perly implemented and managed Personal Rapid Transit
system would generate sufficient revenu o cover the local cost of bonding and operations; and
WHEREAS, Personal Rapid T sit may increase property values and add to the taac base within the City
of Saint Paul.
16 NOW THEREFO BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council requests that the Public Works
17 Department, the anning and Economic Development Department, and the Parks and Recreation
18 Department ovide support in researching the feasibility of a Personal Rapid Transit system in St. Paul
19 and prod e a suuunary report of their finding to the Council by August 30, 2006.
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Yeas Nays Absent
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Bostrom
Harris
Helgen
Lanhy
Montgomery
Thune
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Resolution reqesting informarion on the feasibility of Personal Rapid Transit in St. Paul.
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Planning Commission
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