Futurama!
by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Is there anybody who more loathes a daily commute than a Southern Californian? Maybe somebody in Mumbai? (I don't know! I was never able to catch the Mumbai edition of Cities on Speed!) Slate's got something for us: you. They want your braaaainz, or at least its fruits. Like so:
While we're certainly not opposed to your most forward-looking proposals: Let's fire up Chicago's once sprawling pneumatic tube network; let's not let those zeppelin masts go to waste!--what we're most interested in are things in the here and now, things that are already making (or will soon be making) a difference in your city. These may be big-picture: high-speed rail corridors that return our intracity train systems to their (much faster) glory days, or maybe even personal rapid transit. (It's already come to London's Heathrow Airport.) But they need not be grandiose: Maybe it's free Wi-Fi on interurban buses; maybe it's cycle superhighways; maybe it's a subway display that tells users which cars are most crowdedor Seoul's active OLEV (Online Electric Vehicle) project, in which vehicles draw electric power from strips embedded in the road.
Hop on over there and give it a look. We'll pick out some of the funnest and most fanciful in the coming days.
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