travolator

The Travolator bridge's moving walkway was a first when it opened in 1959.

"We're running the wrong way on a travolator!"

Accordingly, the Travolator bridge was demolished in June 1986.

The Travolator ceased operating in 1981 and San Diego's homelesss started sleeping on the bridge.

Handerly also built the Travolator bridge in 1959 to connect the El Cortez with his new motel across the street.

Designed by architect Clarence J. Paderewski for the Otis Elevator Company, the Travolator was essentially a flat escalator.

For 36 years, the El Cortez was San Diego's tallest building, and its exterior glass elevator, Travolator, and Starlight restaurant made it a San Diego landmark.

However, the need for some form of travolator or form of fixed link would involve an extra change, which is avoidable and would be provided at the expense of convenience and journey time.

(I get the first part - "allusion to the huge task of maintaining the painted surfaces of the railway bridge over the Firth of Forth" - but I have to ask about travolator.