The Roads Must Roll

“The Roads Must Roll” is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in “Astounding Science‐Fiction” magazine June 1940.

In the late 1960s, it was awarded a retrospective “Nebula Award” by the “Science Fiction Writers of America” (SFWA) and published in “The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964” anthology in 1970.

Exposition

Conveyor-belt-like roads moving up to a hundred miles per hour, the only way to keep the congested future moving. But now a strike is shutting it all down. But functionalists from the ranks of technicians who’s servicing the roads have a special view for their place in the society.