The main reason that escalators and moving walkways can’t travel very much faster is that you can’t ask pedestrians to step off a still floor onto a high speed moving platform.
Today’s invention solves that issue by providing a number of separate conveyors, each travelling slightly faster than the one before (at the loading end -and vv at the unloading end).
(I’ve just been told that something like this idea appears in a book by Philip K Dick, so it may not be original after all).
