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City Travel Future: Human-Powered Monorail?


Ever since the 1930s, comic strips and movie serials, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, it has been predicted. There soon may be city transportation where travelers won’t need to drive on crowded streets nor use polluting gasoline.

They’ll go sailing through the air on controlled rails in little capsules. A new monorail idea is that they’ll be powered by passenger legs. No smelly, burning fossil fuels, just throbbing human muscles pumping away like captive critters in cages.

Big and getting bigger internet giant Google has plans to expand its business with this innovation. According to reports, Google is investing a million bucks in a company called Shweeb. They plan to develop such an effective, if a bit crazily radical, overhead transportation system.

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10 Film Quotes From Favorite Destinations PDF Print E-mail


If you believe you’re a super smart seasoned citizen traveler and movie fan, can you name the vintage saying connected to each location?
1. Morocco (1942): We’ll always have Paris.
2. Empire State Building, NY, NY (1933): It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.
3. Beverly Hills CA (1950): All right, Mr. De Mille, I’m ready for my close-up.
4. Atlanta GA (1939): Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
5. Stage Deli, NY, NY (1989): I’ll have what she’s having.
6. Monte Carlo (1962): The name’s Bond. James Bond.
7. Navy Courtroom, Washington DC (1992): You can’t handle the truth!
8. New Orleans LA (1951): Stella! Hey, Stellaaaaah!
9. Notre Dame IN (1940): Just win one for the Gipper!
10. Phialdelphia Museum PA (1976): Yo, Adrian!

To find film titles....

Answers: 1. Casablanca, 2. King Kong, 3. Sunset Boulevard, 4. Gone With The Wind, 5. When Harry Met Sally, 6. Goldfinger, 7. A Few Good Men, 8. A Streetcar Named Desire, 9. Knute Rockne, 10. Rocky.

 
 
 
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