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The Busway Solution
From Futurama to Foz Do Iguacu
Urban transport in the 21st century is provided using technologies that developed in the 19th century – cars, bicycles, buses, electric trains and trams – and walking, which has been around for much longer. Some transport planners find this frustrating. Why should travellers in the age of the i-phone use vehicles that haven’t substantially changed since the days of the Edison phonograph?
The answer is that the proposed replacement technologies have proven impractical, or at least less effective than those we already have. The most popular exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair was Futurama, a General Motorssponsored depiction of the city of 1960: ‘trains’ of electronically controlled cars ...
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