BERLIN — Transit X officials met with the city council Monday night as the company seeks the city’s support for its plans to build two solar-powered public transit podways in Berlin.
The Massachusetts-based company is promoting its plan for a privately financed system that would transport people using small automated 4-person “pods” suspended on a raised rail about 14 feet above street level.
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