Fabric of Paris

Stories of the streets, railways and buildings of the most beautiful city in the world

Transport that never was

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
Transport that never was

Part 4: The motorway craze

7 April 2020

City of Headlights: the network of controlled-access highways planned for Paris in the 1960s
Election special: improbable promises

Unlikely pledges from the campaign for next weekend's municipal elections

11 March 2020

Central Lark: wild ideas from some of Paris's mayoral candidates
Transport that never was

Part 3: SK, the people mover that moved nobody

4 March 2020

Off the rails: the story of a tunnel to nowhere
Transport that never was

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
Transport that never was

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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