Disney’s 1958 Vision of the Future of U.S. Highways
Written by Josie Summa on 12/09/09 • Categorized as just funny,transpo talk
About Author: Josie Summa is President and Principal Search Consultant at Redmond Consulting, Inc., a professional search firm operating within the engineering, planning and consulting markets serving public transportation in North America. 
Below is an eight-minute film entitled “Magic Highway USA,” produced by Disney in 1958.
With a tone that is positively gooey with industrial-era optimism, this video clip explores the endless possibilities for personal mobility via future “roads.”
The hopes of the era offer a lot of insight into how our current highway system was conceived; It’s also quite poignant when one considers how little we have really achieved in the 50 years which have passed.
Love it!
Wow! The creators of The Jetson’s must have believed in this video.
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The only thing that they predict that has come true is GPS and modern tunneling machines.
The current Disney parking arrangements are quite, uhhm pedestrian, by comparison.