September-October Challenge: Aerial Atlas

[jbgibson]

Today's date - September 30, 2057

This will be a listing from the Nile Books website ;-) I figure to do ONE zoomed-in neighborhood map.

This bit goes in the 'look within' section as one of the preview pages, but I figure in this thread it belongs up front to give a brief explanation...


Introduction pg i

NYC transit always seems to get more complicated, but is always trying to serve the citizens better. Chicago still has their "L" trains. NYC used to, but we're above that now. We've gone from "L" to "EVAN". That is of course the EleVated AeropNeumatic line. Either this is the horizontal version of the city's ubiquitous "choobs" - the pneumatic tube elevators now stuck to the side of most tall buildings - or the choobs are a mere vertical copy of the EVAN. Which you believe may depend on whether you're a Transit System man, or a Slider.


The choobs in truth are a natural progression from the old department store and bank pneumatic message capsules. Human-sized (limited to Merely Moderate Men and Not-Too Broads, of course), these whisk the traveler to either his destination, if he lives or works in the building being ascended, or else to his launch spot, if he or she is headed for a slidewire or aircar dock. The EVAN on the other hand is just a modern plastic-shelled version of Mr. Beach's subway of two hundred years ago. Hardly innovations, merely evolution of earlier ideas, perfected for the use of the modern citizen-traveler.


The aircars though, those are new. Despite predictions of the middle twentieth century, flying cars were not just around the corner. Rather, they are just coming into their own now, in the 2050's. Thanks to Our Fair City's generous amount of vertical real estate, they are catching on here rather better than in some of the nation's flatter cities. Slidewires too are a new thought, at least as a commuter transport. Sure, rubes for a hundred years have strung so-called "zip lines" between trees and played at flying. We however, have perfected the technology to a fine art, noted and admired far and wide - to the extent we understand a certain cross-ocean town-of-light is planning to string lines from their Eiffel Tower.






New York Aerial Atlas: A Travelers' Guide Above The Streets [Paperback]
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