Freight Shuttle International

[dfwcre8tive]

Interesting idea: http://www.freightshuttle.com/

Freight normally hauled by trucks could one day soon be shipped on an electric-powered, overhead guideway across Texas ... but Texas officials are encouraging a privately-funded business to get the project up and running, perhaps within six years.

"We think it’s happening at just the right time in our country,” said Stephen Roop, an assistant director at Texas A&M University’s Texas Transportation Institute, and developer of the so-called Freight Shuttle concept. “It can operate in the air space of a highway median.”

Read more here: http://blogs.star-telegram.com/honki...#storylink=cpy

[desertpunk]

Sounds like that old monorail at the Texas State Fairgrounds!