Editing 1964 New York World's Fair (section)

=== Transportation ===
{{For|exhibits by transportation companies at the fair|List of 1964 New York World's Fair pavilions#Transportation pavilions}}[[File:US NY NYC 1964-65 Worlds Fair Monorail (processed 11-1965) 05 CE Family Coll (51915952763).jpg|thumb|Monorail at the 1964 fair |alt=A tall, white building with a curved roof serves as a monorail station. A white train leaves the station while another arrives.]]

The [[American Machine and Foundry Company]] constructed a [[suspended monorail]] with two {{Convert|4000|ft|m|-long|adj=mid}} tracks in the Lake Area.<ref name="nyt-1963-05-08">{{Cite news |date=May 8, 1963 |title=World's Fair to Get 3-Million Monorail System; Train to Run Around Lake Port Body Building to Get Restaurant and Club |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/05/08/archives/worlds-fair-to-get-3million-monorail-system-train-to-run-around.html |access-date=May 22, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522024954/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/05/08/archives/worlds-fair-to-get-3million-monorail-system-train-to-run-around.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="The Washington Post, Times Herald 1963a">{{cite news |date=July 23, 1963 |title=AMF Plans Monorail at New York World's Fair |work=The Washington Post, Times Herald |page=A21 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|141825692}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite magazine |date=July 29, 1963 |title=AMF takes flyer on monorail: The company, building its first monorail at the World's Fair, has plans for world-wide selling |magazine=Railway Age |page=68 |volume=155 |issue=5 |id={{ProQuest|882954650}}}}</ref><ref name="The Washington Post, Times Herald 1965">{{cite news |date=September 6, 1965 |title=Bid to Sell World's Fair Monorail Brings Enthusiastic Response: Decision Data Help Wanted |work=The Washington Post, Times Herald |page=D5 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|142599694}}}}</ref> The line had seven 80-passenger, two-car-long trains.<ref name="The Washington Post, Times Herald 1965" /> Another transport attraction at the fair was the [[Skyride (Six Flags Great Adventure)|Swiss Sky Ride]], a ski lift or [[Gondola lift|aerial gondola]] that was sponsored by the [[Government of Switzerland]].<ref name="Stern (1995) p. 1043">{{harvnb|Stern|Mellins|Fishman|1995|ps=.|p=1043}}</ref> During the 1964 season, visitors could rent one of 147 [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]] Escorters, which were driven by chauffeurs. Sixty-one Glide-a-Ride trolleys also served the fairground during both seasons.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 21, 1965 |title=3-Wheeled 'Bugs' Gone This Year: But Glide-A-Train And Bus Transport Will Be Back |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/04/21/archives/3wheeled-bugs-gone-this-year-but-glideatrain-and-bus-transport-will.html |access-date=June 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |page=37 |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|116821150}} |archive-date=June 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604172008/https://www.nytimes.com/1965/04/21/archives/3wheeled-bugs-gone-this-year-but-glideatrain-and-bus-transport-will.html |url-status=live |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Hornaday |first=Mary |date=April 21, 1965 |title=N.Y. World's Fair Offers Thrilling 'College Courses': Chinese Splendor Space Rendezvous Visits by Astronauts |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=4 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|510781727}}}}</ref>

The fairground was accessed via highways on [[Long Island]] that had been upgraded.<ref name="Hornaday 1963a" /><ref name="Samuel p. 13; Tirella p. 44">{{harvnb|Samuel|2007|ps=|page=13}}; {{harvnb|Tirella|2013|ps=.|page=44}}</ref> An expanded [[World's Fair Marina]] provided access via [[Flushing Bay]].<ref name="Hornaday 1963a" /><ref>{{cite news |date=June 12, 1961 |title=Fair to Make More Room For Boatmen: Flushing Marina Plan To Cost $4,300,000 |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=17 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1327587313}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=June 12, 1961 |title=Marina for Excursion Boats and 800 Yachts Planned at World's Fair |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/06/12/archives/marina-for-excursion-boats-and-800-yachts-planned-at-worlds-fair.html |access-date=May 24, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524191621/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/06/12/archives/marina-for-excursion-boats-and-800-yachts-planned-at-worlds-fair.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The fair was also served by a short-lived ferry service to Manhattan,<ref name="Samuel p. 41" /> as well as other ferry routes to ports in New York and New Jersey.<ref name="nyt-1964-05-03">{{Cite news |date=May 3, 1964 |title=32-M.P.H. Hydrofoils in Fleet That Shuttles to Flushing Bay |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/03/archives/32mph-hydrofoils-in-fleet-that-shuttles-to-flushing-bay.html |access-date=May 31, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601002513/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/03/archives/32mph-hydrofoils-in-fleet-that-shuttles-to-flushing-bay.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A helicopter shuttle provided services to the [[MetLife Building|Pan Am Building]] and [[Downtown Manhattan Heliport|Lower Manhattan heliports]].<ref name="New Pittsburgh Courier 1964">{{Cite news |date=April 18, 1964 |title=Transportation To The 'Fair' |work=New Pittsburgh Courier |page=1 |id={{ProQuest|371626341}}}}</ref> Local buses, airport shuttle buses, the [[New York City Subway]], and the [[Long Island Rail Road]] (LIRR) also stopped near the fairground.<ref name="New Pittsburgh Courier 1964" /> The subway cars [[R33S (New York City Subway car)|R33S]] and [[R36 (New York City Subway car)|R36WF]] were constructed for the [[7 (New York City Subway service)|number seven route]] that served [[Mets–Willets Point station (IRT Flushing Line)|Willets Point station]] near the fair.<ref name="Kursh 1964">{{cite news |last=Kursh |first=Harvey |date=March 3, 1964 |title=World's Fair: Big, Big, Big!: Lots of Edification |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=16 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|510513528}}}}</ref> Although [[IND World's Fair Line|a dedicated subway line]] had served the 1939 fair,<ref name="Cunningham 1993" /> no such route was built for 1964.<ref name="Cunningham 1993">{{Cite book |last1=Cunningham |first1=Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fg4KAQAAMAAJ&q=world%27s+fair+railroad |title=A History of the New York City Subway System |last2=DeHart |first2=Leonard O. |date=1993 |publisher=J. Schmidt, R. Giglio, and K. Lang |pages=27, 83 |language=en |access-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-date=September 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930164825/https://books.google.com/books?id=Fg4KAQAAMAAJ&q=world%27s+fair+railroad |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Samuel p. 41">{{harvnb|Samuel|2007|ps=.|page=41}}</ref> A luxury bus service carried "distinguished guests" to and from the fair.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 30, 1961 |title=You'll Ride In High Style At World's Fair |work=The Atlanta Constitution |page=29 |id={{ProQuest|1616075167}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=June 29, 1961 |title=De Luxe Transport For Footsore Due At World's Fair |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/06/29/archives/de-luxe-transport-for-footsore-due-at-worlds-fair.html |access-date=May 24, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524193125/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/06/29/archives/de-luxe-transport-for-footsore-due-at-worlds-fair.html |url-status=live }}</ref>  There were 20,000 parking spaces,<ref name="Rhoades 2014 k912" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 16, 1964 |title=Wiley Outlines Traffic at Fair; Remote-Controlled Signs to Help With Parking |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/16/archives/wiley-outlines-traffic-at-fair-remotecontrolled-signs-to-help-with.html |access-date=May 31, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531182702/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/16/archives/wiley-outlines-traffic-at-fair-remotecontrolled-signs-to-help-with.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and shuttle buses transported people from the parking lots to the main gate.<ref name="Alpert p. 21" />