NationStates Jolt Archive


Sharina builds the Sky-Way, a revolutionary mode of transportation.

Sharina
10-11-2004, 19:03
Greetings to the International Community.

Sharina has been developing and building Sky-Ways for quite some time now. These new highways provide unparalleled flexibility and open up many new options for transportation.

A new type of car is required to use these incredible highways. The car itself employs magnetics and gyroscopes to remain stable, and to stick to the highways when the highways travel at odd angles.

The highways can take any angle, from normal horiztontal straighaways, to perfect vertical positions 90 degrees off the ground and weaves through canyons or dense urban jungles. The highways can even twist upside-down, but the cars will remain upright. People won't have to suffer nausea or issues associated with roller-coaster type of transportation.

The Sky-Ways would save a lot of space, eliminate automobile pollution, increase access by orders of magnitude, and look absouletely awe inspiring in cities.

Without further ado, I present you the Sky-Way!

http://www.rit.edu/~rxd0205/nationstates/pictures/skyway1.jpg

The main Sky-Way Expressway can be clearly seen rising high above the city of Valona in Sharina Prime, in the left side of this photograph. Take note of the Sky-Way Street in the bottom center of the photograph, as it brings cars from the massive high rises from the right of the photograph, and the Sky-Way Expressway into the suburbs of Valona.

http://www.rit.edu/~rxd0205/nationstates/pictures/skyway2.jpg

This is a close-up photograph of the high rise in the previous photograph. You can see how Sky-Way cars can leave the garages in the apartment high rise and travel downwards towards the Sky-Way Street. This provides a tremendous boost to inner-city residents as they no longer need massive multi-story parking lots, or deal with clogged residential streets. They can simply store their cars in their apartment garages, providing apartment residents the same freedom and flexibility as house residents in posh suburbs.

http://www.rit.edu/~rxd0205/nationstates/pictures/skyway3.jpg

This photograph shows one of the Sky-Way Street Junctions in Valona. This is where two or more Sky-Way Streets connect, or where Sky-Way Streets transit the cars to the Sky-Way Expressway shown in the first photograph.

http://www.rit.edu/~rxd0205/nationstates/pictures/skyway4.jpg

Yet another photograph of another Sky-Way Street Junction. However, it is near the center of Valona, where major traffic takes place. This Junction services no less than four Sky-Way Streets, where literally tens of thousands of Sky-Cars change streets every hour to travel to the far reaches of the gigantic Valona metropolis.

I might consider offering contracts to build these superior highways in other nations, if sufficient interest is generated.

Live well,
President Rand Veristek
Sharina
10-11-2004, 19:48
Bump!
The Phoenix Milita
10-11-2004, 19:54
Offical Statement from the Army Corps of Engineers
"cool but nah"