Fabric of Paris Transport that never was
Featuring floating trains, dystopian dreams of automobile dominance and the hare-brained idea of an airport on the Seine, discover a world of miscalculations, compromises and alleged corruption as we visit five transport projects for the Paris region that never saw the light of day.
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Part 1: Aérotrain, a hovertrain in Paris's western suburbs
18 February 2020
Floated, but never made concrete: a tale of futuristic technology, broken promises and alleged corruption
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Part 2: Aramis, an experiment with PRT
25 February 2020
Stopped in its tracks: a radical proposal for a transport mode found to be ill-suited to Paris's needs
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Part 3: SK, the people mover that moved nobody
4 March 2020
Off the rails: the story of a tunnel to nowhere
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Part 4: The motorway craze
7 April 2020
City of Headlights: the network of controlled-access highways planned for Paris in the 1960s
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Part 5: Aéroparis, an airport by the Eiffel Tower
12 May 2020
Flight of fancy: one man's far-fetched idea for an aerodrome on the Île aux Cygnes
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