Marble Transportation - Golden Age of the Train Reinvented

I always loved the train, and I think we are heading towards a new interest in trains, probably the biggest resurgence since the Victorian Age. Why? Well fuel cost, environmental concerns, global warming - you name it, the reasons are there. However our existing train system is sorely inadequate. I live in Dundas and we have a train passing right through our community, but there is no opportunity to use it? Since we can't seem to live without personal mobility, I thought it would be interesting to have a system where vehicles travelled like units within a marble chain. One unit could break free while the other units would rejoin - like marbles. This would be like a interchangeable train with individual modules for personal and private mobility. WE could retrofit our existing system of transportation routes and reinvent mobile transportation notions

Utter fantasy, but a thought.

Function Follows Form

I am sitting here thinking about how our latter twentieth century design foray has gotten everything wrong. From our sprawling suburbs to our lack of thinking about detail. I blame the mantra we were all taught in school "Form Follows Function". Here I am proposing something else. The following will a haphazard view of the world and how a new viewpoint needs to adopted. Perhaps function should follow form - Bauhaus had it all wrong ...