Volume 13, Number Six, June 1954, Conveyor Belts for Pedestrians: In Jersey City, N.J., commuters recently started using what is believed to be the first moving sidewalk designed as a permanent facility for the large-scale movement of pedestrian traffic. Successful demonstration of the feasibility of this installation is expected to stimulate many other applications now under study to facilitate and encourage pedestrian traffic in downtown business districts, large shopping centers, airports, and parking lots—to name a few actual projects. One particularly bold proposal is the substitute belt conveyors for the shuttle subway trains now operating under 42nd Street, New York City, between Times Square and Grand Central Station.
From the Urban Land Archives: First Moving Sidewalk for Pedestrians in Jersey City
In Jersey City, N.J., commuters recently started using what is believed to be the first moving sidewalk designed as a permanent facility for the large-scale movement of pedestrian traffic.
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