Ok, that title is a bit tongue in cheek but you would think it was true judging by the thinking evident in Minnesota. Given the amount of well developed research that has come out of Minnesota, including Ed Anderson's, you could call it America's home of PRT.

Yet that very city seems to have gone out of its way to ignore PRT. In the face of economic crisis it would rather stick with a technology which is going to require continued subsidies, bringing with that all the attendant issues of subsidised services.

Read here  an article decrying the opportunity lost in the City's Central Corridor light rail line

Also here an interesting article noting the skewed economics that arise from such subsidies