Thursday, March 01, 2007

Going Under to Stay Above

A strong feeling here. I would like two systems of transport.

One is above ground for people. It’s public. It’s clean. And if you want to be left in peace while you travel, you press a button and the Lucite comes down around you. One could enter these trains. Or, one could have a pod and press in a destination and the pod joins into the stream of other pods. Easy enough.

But the other system I have thought about for years and the one I really want to happen is:
The underground railroad for crap. Yes. Anything you buy gets a code put on it and it goes underground with all the other stuff that people by and when you get home, there it is in your personal underground station. All items would be carried on a conveyer belt (up to a certain weight) and the little conveyer belts only turn on when necessary. The conveyer belt from the street to the building where you live would only turn on if there is a package for you. This would save an enormous amount of energy.

There would be larger tunnels for freight...freight depots would be built around cities and farms. There would be no need for trucks. There would be no need for air pollution.

People would live and travel above ground in fresh air. Personal goods and freight would travel below.

Tunnels of love.

1 comment:

Todd HellsKitchen said...

How about a third tunnel further underground for garbage and certain politicians?