There would be no monorail linking Manchester Airport to Langley, on the city's northern edge, no moving pavements to carry people along Oxford Road and out of the station; the urban skyway that would ferry cars to the dizzy heights of the nearby Piccadilly Plaza would never be built.
All those TV shows that predicted the future, all those World Fairs and exhibitions and films, all those bearded science men in nylon flares and giant side burns telling us the future was going to have moving pavements and robot servants.
Making Post-war Manchester: Visions of an Unmade City brings to life long-forgotten plans for the city's reinvention: a riot of moving pavements, monorails and rooftop heliports.
In Central and Western district, there is an extensive system of escalators and moving pavements, including the longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world, the Mid-Levels escalator.
Earlier this year Gainesville, Florida, returned bike lanes to cars on a 1.6km stretch, resulting in cyclists moving to the pavement.
Here are extracts from various testimonies: Mr Wilson said he had initially encountered Mr Brown and a friend walking in a road and told them to move to the pavement, drawing an expletive from Mr Brown.
The officer, who was in his vehicle, says he told the men to move to the pavement because they were walking down the middle of the road, holding up traffic.
Other shops are moving to online sales to make up for the dip in pavement traffic.
Then the three men, using a long brush attachment, handily evaporated 25 black blobs from the pavement before moving to another spot.
This review paper deals with the dynamic response of road pavements to moving loads on their surface.
