“The Roads Must Roll” is a 1940 science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. In the late 1960s, it was awarded a retrospective Nebula Award …
The story is set in the near future, when “roadtowns” (wide rapidly moving passenger platforms similar to moving sidewalks, but reaching speeds of 100 mph) have replaced highways and railways as the dominant transportation method in the United States. …
Heinlein’s vision might just be starting to come true.
A Futuristic Proposal to Turn the World’s Oldest Subway System Into a Giant Moving Walkway
Rick McCharles 