Word: monorail
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...Behind the stores the city had already built large parking spaces, considered by mall men to be a key factor in the success of pedestrians-only areas. In effect, downtown has been converted to an oversized shopping center. Pomona is also considering amplifying its parking facilities by building a monorail between the mall and the fair grounds, two miles away, which are used only 17 days of the year...
...close to paying off its $4,000.000 cost on the strength of elevator rides to the top ($1) and rent receipts from the revolving restaurant there, where crowds sometimes line up for four hours at lunch and reservations are made for breakfast. The $4,000,000, mile-long monorail to the fairgrounds will soon be paid for, and may be turned over to the city. As for the rest of the fair. private creditors have already recouped their original $4,500,000 investment, and since the fair still has another two months to run, its promoters expect to wind...
...looks like a bristling World War II sea mine, shoots jets 100 ft. into the air, and presents 20-minute programs of changing shapes, colors and music. Also to be preserved after the fair: an 800-seat theater, a 5,500-seat arena for circuses and ice shows, a monorail transit system linking the whole fair-civic center to the heart of the city...
...development of facilities for the private automobile to the virtual exclusion of every other form of transportation." The answer to the problem, most experts agree, is neither to outlaw the auto mobile in cities, nor abandon the commuter to his fate, nor adopt such oft-suggested schemes as the monorail or the far-fetched "pneumatic tube for people." What the nation's big cities need, if they are not to become monstrous masses of immovable autos, is better, more efficient public transportation. Traffic experts want to see the train, the bus and the rapid-transit system take their rightful...
...weatherproof corridors, red-carpeted and glass-enclosed, which extend from the terminal at plane-door level on a high, fixed base. First-class passengers enter a short jetwalk that leads to the plane's front door via a short gondola that slides to the door on a monorail. Other passengers walk a longer distance along a jet-walk that runs parallel to the plane, enter the rear door through a telescoping corridor that can be moved out to the door on wheels. Both devices are operated electrically from a console that can raise, lower or telescope the ramp...