Cabletown

Imagine a big city laid out in a perfect grid (many cities are). Oh, you could drive to where you need to go, if you like fighting traffic. But in Cabletown, we have a very efficient, very reliable cable car system (thus the name of our proud city).

The cable car system is elevated above every street. The North-South streets have their cable cars at elevation 1, while the east-west streets have theirs at elevation 2. At each street, between intersections, there are always three cars going side-by-side in one direction, such that passengers may easily hop from one car to the other through the open doorways. The car on the left will turn left at the next intersection, of course going up or down an incline to reach the new elevation. The car on the right will always turn right at the intersection following. The car in the middle runs straight down the length of the boulevard, never turning right nor left. These cars go in alternating directions per street (like one-way streets). When the turning cars reach their new street, they will meet and connect with the car in the middle of the new street.

It is up to you to remember to change cars when your street is coming up, but don't worry - it is easy to turn around at the next intersection if you miss.

The cars never stop - they are going fast enough to make your commute better than riding a bike, but slow enough to allow safe disembarkment - there is a moving sidewalk next to the car going at half speed, from which you step off to the cement walk and then off to the stairway down to the street.

Each city block has four cable cars constantly going around it in a square. Each boulevard has as many cars going down the middle cable as there are city blocks. Two side-by-side boulevards going in opposite directions work together to cycle their sets of cars through their systems, as the cars will circle over to the start of the adjacent boulevard when they reach the end of one. Clever passengers will take advantage of this feature as well if it suits their commute.

Get anywhere you need to go on our constantly moving cable cars.