A MOVING FOOTPATH.
EXPERIMENTS WITH A PARIS SCHEME.
PARIS', ’Oct. 24.—As long ago as'l92 n, Paris municipal councillor, Al. Desvaux, proposed that Paris should he provided with a moving footpath which would tend to lessen the wheeled traffic in the streets. He suggested that this pathway should he constructed beneath the Grands Boulevards, but experts are of the opinion that it would he better first to test it, over a shorter distance, such an Palais Royal-Boulevard Montmartre, a busy route which ;s not served by the underground railway. The Kneed proposed is fifteen kilometres an hour, as compared with just, over seven kilometres, the speed of the moving pathway at the Exhibition of 1903. Experiments with the system advocated by AL Desvuux have now begun at Bellevue, outside Parts; attention « being chiefly directed to the possibility o* attaining a speed as high as fifteen kilometres (over nine miles an hour), without risking accidents during rush hours.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 11
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156A MOVING FOOTPATH. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 11
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