Every weekday morning, a small, driverless train glides above the streets of downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It has no steering wheel, no conductor. It just runs a fixed track, 2.5 miles long, over the St. Johns River and through eight stations. This is the Skyway, and it is one of just three such systems built in the United States. A 1980 federal review found Washington once hoped dozens of American cities would build systems just like it. In the end, only three ever did.
A federal experiment that fell short
