» The train was to be a series of cylinders for the passenger cars, air driven by propeller above the engine car […] « on » track or monorail « featuring elevated train stations. II.) 1
» Naturally enough the railroad rights-of-way as may be, belong to the people; and truck lanes occupy the vacant spaces each side along the rails. […] Various streams of continuous cross-country traffic, local and long distance bus travel and local trucking should be placed upon these popular railroad rights-of-way, thus restoring the highway to the safe use of the citizen in his automobile. « IV.) 2
» There may be many minor transient stations instead of a few major ones […] Railway cars would not run by noisy "trucks" but slide down shallow skids, the cars mounted upon them being light cylindrical tubes perhaps jet-powered. A railway train would become capable of 150 miles an hour without any uncomfortable vibration. « IV.) 3
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5828.001 [detail; section through elevated train station]
Label: » Broadacre City (Right of Way) … «
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