Just came across this cool article at Slashdot:
Transportation Retro-Futuristics
"Flashback to the future with UC Berkeley's Transportation Futuristics! An excellent exhibition of amazing diagrams on how transportation was expected to evolve, featuring flying saucer buses, airplane escape pods and, yes, monorails. But where are the Segways and SUVs?"
What was interesting to me was the Houston connection to the Monorail concept. One illustration shows a 1956 full-scale demonstration at "an abandoned Houston racetrack" (here). I wonder if there's anything left at the spot, or if it was all torn down after the demo?
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals... Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. - B. Obama 1/20/09
The one in Houston is(are) the trailblazer car(s) that were also at Fair Park in Dallas. I think I (or someone else) posted somewhere on the site a news article finding a farm in Texas with one of the cars on it's property nowadays, yadda y....
By the way, I love that site - not sure how I haven't run across it yet!
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