MOVING SIDEWALKS.
* FOR PARIS STREETS. PLAN TO SOLVE; TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM. 4 Moving sidewalks will be established on the fashionable Paris boulevards and a few other congested thoroughfares in an effort to meet the transportation problem, if experiments con. ducted by the Inventions Office show the expected results. The principal point to solve is the gradual transition from normal walking pace to a speed of eight miles an hour without subjecting the passenger to jolts or the danger of a fall. Two systems now under trial partly accomplish this. The first, however, which consists of small fixed rollers turning on themselves, imparts a tickling sensation to the sole of the foot. The second, which is made of strips of leather belting, is free from this aspect, but the transition from one speed to another is more abrupt. Both systems are provided with moving handrails on either side.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 January 1926, Page 9
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146MOVING SIDEWALKS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 January 1926, Page 9
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