Unicycle Lanes to get to work

come on, how cool would it be?!

Just saw a unicyclist this morning. It's freshers' week (=frat week for US?) and I guess he was from the Circus skills club or something.

But seriously, once you've learned, and are confident of your balance, when carrying your back-pack-style briefcase or whatever, think of the advantages - you can see over the cars, your upright stance is probably very good for the tummy muscles, and you aren't in the firing line of the traffic fumes. Only problem - no gears on ordinary unicycles. We may need to modify that, but then it's yet one more thing that could go wrong.. might be over-engineering.
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Modifications to make this less m-f-d-able...:

So, having asserted that I think it would be cool to unicycle to work (not that I can unicycle at all... yet), it seems I actually have to invent something to be worth keeping. Ok. How about this:

Unicycle lanes - special cycle lanes with infrastructure specially for unicyclists.
•Can't freewheel on unicycles? Well then, at the top of hills, latch yourself and your cycle onto the handy zip wire, and whizz down to the next part of the road that you'd have to pedal on. The efficient gravity-based motion will give you a bit of a headstart too, although you'll have to be ready to pedal like billy-o at the moment of touchdown!
•Nasty pedestrians shoving broom handles at your spokes? the unicyle lane has a perspex wall at the sides, to protect you from such nasty irrational phobics.
•Road layouts are often less than helpful to non-combustion-engined wheeled traffic - if bicycles have problems, unicyclists sure will. So, as this becomes more and more popular, the zip wires and ratcheted narrow-gauge rail lift systems emplaced for unicyclists will spawn themselves into a whole network of overhead routes! It might just be the 21st century equivalent of monorail. That'd be good, eh.