What if parts of Manhattan didn't have vehicular traffic, but instead conveyor-belt transportation? We've visited the idea of moving sidewalks as it was proposed in the late 1800s, but here's a later proposal, from 1954, which would have eliminated all wheeled traffic (and thus "roaring motors and noxious fumes") as well as "nervous pedestrians scurrying back and forth at dangerous intersections."
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What If 5th Avenue Had No Cars, But Conveyor Belt Transportation Instead?
Occupational Hazards
Yesterday a 22-year-old mail clerk at the law firm Chadbourne & Parke, located in the G.E. building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, got his head stuck in the mailroom conveyor belt. Ouch! here's no word yet on just how the unidentified man's head got caught in the machinery, but the Sun reports he’s now in critical condition at Bellevue. OSHA was called in to look at the belt, which was "shut down as a precaution."
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