Crossword clues for skyway
Wiktionary
n. 1 An airplane route. 2 An elevated road. 3 A connecting bridge between buildings, above ground level.
WordNet
n. a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another [syn: air lane, flight path, airway]
Wikipedia
A Han Dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) Chinese miniature model of two residential towers joined by a skyway
Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy.
Skybridge in Covent Garden, London.
A three-storey bridge at The Core Shopping Centre in Calgary.
The skyway system in Taipei.
Skyways in the Peachtree Center district of Atlanta.
In an urban setting, a skyway, catwalk, skybridge, or skywalk is a type of pedway consisting of an enclosed or covered bridge between two or more buildings. This protects pedestrians from the weather. These skyways are usually owned by businesses, and are therefore not public spaces (compare with sidewalk). However, in Asia, such as Bangkok's skywalks, they are built and owned separately by the city government, connecting between privately run rail stations or other transport with their own footbridges, and run many kilometers. Skyways usually connect on the first few floors above the ground-level floor, though they are sometimes much higher, as in Petronas Towers, SWFC, and Kingdom Centre. A notable exception in North America are the Saint Paul skyways, which are publicly owned, unlike most skyways in North America. The space in the buildings connected by skyways is often devoted to retail business, so areas around the skyway may operate as a shopping mall. Non-commercial areas with closely associated buildings, such as university campuses, can often have skyways and/or tunnels connecting buildings.
The world's largest discontinuous skyway network – Calgary, Alberta's " +15 Walkway" system – has a total length of . The Minneapolis Skyway System is the world's largest continuous system and spans connecting 69 blocks in downtown Minneapolis.
Other cities in the US Midwest, such as Saint Paul, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Rochester, and Duluth also have significant skyway systems. On a smaller scale, terminals of large airports are often connected by skywalk systems, as at Manchester Airport, United Kingdom.
The Mumbai Skywalk Project is a discontinuous system of 50 skywalks planned in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, each 1 to 2 km in length. When completed, the system will be the largest skyway system in the world. The first of these is a 1.3 km (0.8 mi) long skywalk connecting the suburban regions of Bandra and Kurla.
Some cities have the equivalent of a skyway underground, and many locales have mixed subway/skyway systems; see underground city.
The Skyway was a gondola lift attraction at Disneyland, at the Magic Kingdom, and at Tokyo Disneyland. Since all versions of this attraction took riders back and forth between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland, the route from Tomorrowland was called Skyway to Fantasyland, and the route from Fantasyland was called Skyway to Tomorrowland.
Skyway is a suspended covered walkway between buildings.
Skyway may also refer to:
- In air travel, a flight path common to many airline flights
- Skyways Limited, a post-war British airline which became Skyways International in 1971
- Skyway Airlines based in Wisconsin, USA
- SkyWay Charity based in Hackney, London, UK
- Skyway Enterprises, an airline based in Florida, USA
- Skyways Express, regional airline based in Stockholm, Sweden
- Skyway (neighborhood), an unincorporated area of King County in western Washington state
- A skyway, like an aerial tram or other suspended-carriage system:
- The Jacksonville Skyway in Jacksonville, Florida, a tram (people mover)
- Skyway (Disney) in major Disney theme parks, closed in the 1990s
- A skyway, a high road bridge or an elevated highway:
- Buffalo Skyway
- Burlington Bay James N. Allan Skyway
- Cape Fear Skyway
- Chicago Skyway
- Garden City Skyway
- Metro Manila Skyway
- Pulaski Skyway
- Sunshine Skyway
- San Francisco Skyway
- Veterans' Glass City Skyway
- The Skyway, a highway connecting Chico, California and Paradise, California
- Skyways (TV series), an Australian television series set at an airport
- "Skyway", song by The Replacements from the album Pleased to Meet Me
- Skyway (film), a 1933 American film directed by Lewis D. Collins
- Skyway (album), a 1980 album by Skyy
Skyway is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Lewis D. Collins.
Skyway is the second album by New York City based group Skyy released in 1980 on Salsoul Records.
Skyway (formerly TerminaLink) is a people mover system operating at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas. The system is 0.7 miles (1.1 km) long, and runs along the north side of the airport, beyond airport security. The system serves all of the airport's five terminals, with four stations at Terminal A, Terminal B, Terminal C, and International Terminal D /E, respectively. Skyway (which operates airside) is one of two people movers currently operating at Bush Intercontinental Airport. The other people mover (which operates landside) opened in 1969 and is known as the Subway (formerly the Inter-terminal Train).
The system uses Bombardier Innovia APM 100 people mover vehicles, which are powered from a 600- volt third rail. There are a total of 12 vehicles in the system, and each vehicle travels at 30 mph (50 km/h) and can hold up to 80 passengers. The same type of vehicles are also found at Denver International Airport ( Automated Guideway Transit System), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ( The Plane Train), San Francisco International Airport ( AirTrain), and Tampa International Airport.
Usage examples of "skyway".
Tedi brought the airboat in along the Skyway, peeled off to follow the wide ribbon of the roof of the Slideway to a hangar tower.
Two-point-five klicks west of the seawall, a band of botflies and exoskels formed a north-south line and began sealing off skyways and tunnels.
A police gyrocar whined along the skyway, stopped before the surgery just in time to meet him as he got to the bottom of the steps.
With a sharp turn which produced a yelp of tormented rubber from the rear wheel, the gyrocar spun off the skyway and onto a descending corkscrew.
Without a word they struggled out of their battered gyrocar, sprinted along the skyway, over the long, smooth hump.
Cadillac on the Sunshine Skyway fishing pier, there was instant hypergolic chemistry.
Not that night, right off the bat, with that keysmith to identify him and everybody in the Skyway Club ready to tell the world that he was crazy about her.
Above the enormous hole was a quarter-mile gap in the shattered skyway, a break from the ragged ends of which stubby lengths of twisted, rusting girders stuck.
Four other drivers on the skyway got the momentary meemies as they bulleted past, glared after them.
Now that an unprecedented pirate fleet ranged and doubtless ravaged the skyways, the insurance companies ought to go bankrupt.
Bader Von Vechten lies sprawled out on top of his tangle of sheets and blankets and pillows, on the sagging mattress of a double bed in a single room at the back of the Skyway Motel, off the interstate somewhere in the middle of Nebraska, and, comfortable in the very squalor of it, he wallows with a carelessness and ease that he has otherwise forgotten how to have.
To the left, a large double door opened onto the apartment's skyway balcony, where, two meters below, a hoversled from a popular airbed vendor was waiting to provide a fast escape.
Close by, on riverwalks and esplanades, on skyways crisscrossing above the well-lighted waters, hundreds more walked in pairs and small groups.
THEY WALKED BACK to City Hall through the Skyways, shouldering through the lunchtime rush and the human traffic jams around the food courts.
The Roadbuilders will return someday and make the road free again, abolish all oppressive governments, open up the entire Skyway to every race.