"The Roads Must Roll" Rating: Five Planets
by Robert A. Heinlein  
pub. 1940  
collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I  
   
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Because conveyor strips, moving walkways of varying speeds, provide the transportation infrastructure of the country, the people who maintain these roads are subject to quasi-military rules and discipline.

When a group of road technicians stop a high-speed strip, the section chief engineer must find a way to regain control and keep the roads rolling.

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Atom BulletNote the way that Heinlein uses the Australian visitor to embed the background into the story.

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Atom Bullet What aspects of current civilization might be analogous to the rolling roads?

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