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Why Take the Train When You Could Take This Moving Sidewalk?

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday September 10 2015, @04:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-we-hate-airports dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

British architectural firm NBB​J has an intriguing idea for next generation public transport: moving sidewalks. The technology, of course, already exists, and is more associated with "trying to get around airports," but they have a fully envisioned way to keep it brisk: fast and slow lanes.

The fastest lane would move at 15 MPH, with passengers either lazily coming along for the ride or adding in their own 3 MPH walk to drive up that top speed. NBBJ even believes this could move them as fast as a train would, all stops considered. The concept also takes advantage of existing subway architecture, putting the entire thing underground and turning it into a sort of pedestrian concourse with small shops and stands.

Moving walkways debuted at the World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Illinois.

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  • (Score: 1) by ElectricKaibutsu on Friday September 11 2015, @05:29PM

    by ElectricKaibutsu (5865) on Friday September 11 2015, @05:29PM (#235288)

    Here I was going to post about Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel from 1953. I didn't realize he was beaten by 13 years.