Patent ID: 6837167

Claim:
A transit system for moving passengers, comprising: a plurality of upright columns having lower ends supported in the ground; a cross member located at an upper end of each of the columns; a pair of spaced-apart guideways extending between the columns and supported on the cross-members; a vehicle that is carried on the guideways; a plurality of beams extending between the guideways; a plurality of mesh walkway plates extending between the guideways and supported by the beams for allowing passengers of the vehicle to disembark from the vehicle and the transit system in the event of a malfunction, the walkway plates allowing sunlight to pass through to the ground, the walkway plates extending fully from one of the guideways to the other of the guideways; a side door on the vehicle for normal ingress and egress; front and rear emergency doors on the vehicle, to allow passengers to move from the walkway plates outside one end of the vehicle to the walkway plates outside the other end of the vehicle by passing through emergency doors at both ends of the vehicle; and wherein the emergency doors comprise folding ramps to facilitate access to the walkway plates.