I don’t like those hostile architecture seats
Hard agree. But I like it more than the local solution here (No seats, ever)
I like homelessness less. Vagrancy was illegal in the USSR and a kruschev flat went for 5% of income in a job you were guaranteed to get.
Also my fat ass hates those things too.
Yeah but this is taken in a country where homelessness exists (Germany), not a socialist utopia
I lust for this like Musk tryna get into an Epstein party.
that’s a really narrow tram. what’s the seating situation, one seat on each side of the aisle? seating along the wall, facing the aisle?
I cannot comprehend this either. It looks like a tram, but it clearly needs a raised platform unlike a tram. So it’s more like a Metro in that way, but really narrow. I also worry about the power of the thing compared to a Metro, since it looks to be tram tech and I have never seen one go fast.
I also looked it up writing this, apparently they gradually replaced their trams with this thing, which explains why it’s that way, but also why would you replace your tram.
Lots of places have no clear seperation of tram and subway, which means that in such cities any tram has to be able to use raised platforms. The lines just run above or below ground depending on local conditions. And no, they do not go particularly fast, but this is an inner city situation where stations are close together and there are no long overland distances to be bridged, so you can’t accelerate much to begin with.
Do they have two sets of doors or how can you have both street level tram access and raised platforms on the same train?
the ones i’m thinking of do not have street level access, aboveground stations have raised platforms as well
