Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but i really like how calm the street scenes are without cars. There's also a 1902 / now comparison video which is kind of depressing, i thought i'd rather post something nice :)
Wuppertal, Germany in 1902
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk
5 Comments
Humanius@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
It's certainly an interesting town and monorail. I was there last month and took some footage of the Schwebebahn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpmhPuT_Dlk
Johny5@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
So beautiful :)
AchtungDrempels@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Right? Makes me strangely sentimental watching this.
FatLegTed@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2y
Humanius@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Monorails are usually not the most practical solution. In most places where you can build a monorail, a regular train is usually simpler and cheaper to build. Wuppertal has some very specific geography which causes a monorail following the path of the river Wupper to make sense, but that often doesn't translate well to other places.
Tom Scott made a video about it at some point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4KZLcvMQWg
And a video on the Schwebebahn by The Tim Traveller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IFh6wFTJiQ
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
The situations where such infrastructure technologies make sense as the best option are pretty rare. Wuppertal had the unique combination of circumstances with:
This all contributed to a suspended railway making a lot of sense in that case.
Today, an average problem can be satisfactorily addressed with a form of conventional rail in most situations.