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"In 1970 I found little difficulty staying 30 years ahead of the man in the street, and now I find it difficult to stay 18 months ahead of the man on the street."
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Predates the more famous rolling roads from Heinlein's 1940 novella The Roads Must Roll. See also the slidewalk from Fritz Lieber's 1941 Sanity, the beltway from The Faceless Men (1948) by Leo Zagat and the moving roadway from H.G. Wells' 1899 story When the Sleeper Wakes.
However, the earliest reference to this idea is probably the street slides from Mrs. Maberly: Or, The World as it Will be (1836) by an Anonymous Author.
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