To the Editor:

To encourage the International Olympic Committee to choose Boston to host the 2024 Olympic Games, Rhode Island and Massachusetts should form a partnership and build a personal rapid mass transit system (PRT) from Quonset Point to Foxboro’s Gillette Stadium along the Amtrak and the MBTA right of ways. There is room for the Olympic Village adjacent to Gillette Stadium’s MBTA station. Massachusetts could then build circulator PRT lines that connect to nearby Olympic venues.

Olympic visitors would find that PRT mass transit is safe, private, convenient, reliable and available 24 hours each day. This new mass transit system will serve Rhode Island and Massachusetts for many years to come and ridership fees are predicted to be very low.

In addition, docking facilities for cruise ships should be created at Quonset and Quonset’s airport should be upgraded to receive international traffic during the Olympic Games. Boston would be the only competing city that had outstanding direct connections to the Olympic facilities by air, sea, PRT, rail and road. Safe, convenient and reliable transportation connecting Olympic venues with nearby hotels and cruise ships will be the determining factor why the International Olympic Committee chooses Boston to host the 2024 Olympic Games.

Kenneth Berwick

Smithfield