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Slidewalk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (204 words) |
 | A slidewalk is a fictional moving sidewalk structurally sound enough to support buildings and large populations of travelers. |
| Isaac Asimov, in his Robot Series, imagined slidewalks as the potential method of transportation of practically the entire urban population on Earth, with expressways moving at up to 60 km per hour equipped with seating accommodations for long distance travel, and with slower subsidiary tracks branching off from the main lines. |
| Slidewalks figure prominantly in the animated series, "The Jetsons." |
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| He had stepped on to the corridor slidewalk and had coasted halfway to the elevator before he realized that Phy had followed him and was plucking timidly at his sleeve. |
| The slidewalk was a glass bead arch that spanned the hazy gulf between Ransom's apartment block and the transit station. |
| It was a twenty-minute slidewalk trip from L'Express, at one end of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard, through streets lined by gray plastisteel residential high rises, to the Down Plaza at the other end of the development. |
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