Music Banter - View Single Post - Architecture
Thread: Architecture
View Single Post
Old 08-26-2020, 06:15 AM   #383 (permalink)
Lisnaholic
...here to hear...
 
Lisnaholic's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: He lives on Love Street
Posts: 4,444
Default

Your video clips are fascinating, Soundgarden, especially this one that shows how the system is still in use today, a fact which surely vindicates the design of a very unusual method of urban transport:-

Quote:
Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks View Post
For comparative purposes, here's a side-by-side video where you can see the footage above, compared with what taking a trip around on the same monorail looks like today

For comparison, here are some pics of more conventional elevated inner-city railway lines:-

London: sometimes the brick railway arches are put to good use, but that's more the exception than the rule.




.....

New York: what was once an intrusive solution to city traffic has redeemed itself in part since the development of the Highline Walkway:



....

Bottom Line: Rather humdrum scenes after Soundgarden's Wuppertal video, I'm afraid
__________________
"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953
Lisnaholic is offline   Reply With Quote