{"id":59716,"date":"2020-11-21T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=59716"},"modified":"2020-11-20T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:37:53","slug":"schwebebahn-why-wuppertals-trains-are-much-cooler-than-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/schwebebahn-why-wuppertals-trains-are-much-cooler-than-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Schwebebahn<\/em>: Why Wuppertal&#8217;s Trains Are Much Cooler Than Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9IFh6wFTJiQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tim Traveller<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 12 Apr 2018<\/p>\n<p>Wuppertal has possibly the world&#8217;s most badass public transport: a 120-year-old swingin&#8217; suspension railway. But the question is: why? When everyone else was busy building trams and undergrounds, what made Wuppertal say &#8220;NOPE&#8221;, and build this instead?<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nTom Scott Video:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F4KZLcvMQWg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F4KZL&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiserwagen photo:<br \/>\nBy Own work &#8211; JuergenG, CC BY-SA 3.0, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqbm9oc29DX3NGSTdsNGtGWkFDRGhmOVNaUVBqUXxBQ3Jtc0ttd3pTTHh3c0ItdzZ5N3BZNUdyWXdtNklucVZqLXRBV3dJelloeTk0WXR2ZEZZN292UFJscjF6TGkxdGlNa3A2dG1ZY0JpY2stRGxrZmhyVnZjb3k4aVNTZWY0TGNGQUIyRUQxbG9TWWVzY1BtT1B4VQ%3D%3D&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Fcurid%3D34150&#038;v=9IFh6wFTJiQ&#038;event=video_description\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Tim Traveller<br \/>\n10 months ago<br \/>\nHi all &#8211; just a quick note on this video: I think a few people are mishearing me at 0:43 where I say this is &#8220;the world&#8217;s oldest suspension railway&#8230; it&#8217;s also <em>one of<\/em> the world&#8217;s only suspension railways&#8221;. I did not call it &#8220;the world&#8217;s only suspension railway&#8221; &mdash; there are others, including one not too far away from here at D\u00fcsseldorf Airport, another in Memphis, US, and some more in Japan. TLDR: it&#8217;s the oldest one but not the only one. Thank you for your attention \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_2020-11-21-Schwebebahn-Why-Wuppertal\u2019s-Trains-Are-Much-Cooler-Than-Yours.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_2020-11-21-Schwebebahn-Why-Wuppertal\u2019s-Trains-Are-Much-Cooler-Than-Yours-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_2020-11-21-Schwebebahn-Why-Wuppertal\u2019s-Trains-Are-Much-Cooler-Than-Yours-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_2020-11-21-Schwebebahn-Why-Wuppertal\u2019s-Trains-Are-Much-Cooler-Than-Yours-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_2020-11-21-Schwebebahn-Why-Wuppertal\u2019s-Trains-Are-Much-Cooler-Than-Yours-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot_2020-11-21-Schwebebahn-Why-Wuppertal\u2019s-Trains-Are-Much-Cooler-Than-Yours.png 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tim Traveller Published 12 Apr 2018 Wuppertal has possibly the world&#8217;s most badass public transport: a 120-year-old swingin&#8217; suspension railway. But the question is: why? When everyone else was busy building trams and undergrounds, what made Wuppertal say &#8220;NOPE&#8221;, and build this instead? *** Tom Scott Video: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F4KZL&#8230; Kaiserwagen photo: By Own work &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1118,7,237],"tags":[140,174,527],"class_list":["post-59716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-germany","category-history","category-railways","tag-design","tag-innovation","tag-publictransit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fxa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61647,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59716\/revisions\/61647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}