Related videos What is a modern tram: • Tram accelerated to 100 km/h! What s... Elon Musk's hyperloop and other magic pills for traffic jams: • Elon Musk's hyperloop and other magic pills for traffic jams: • Is the metro now only for Moscow? The fate of the Krasnoyarsk metrotram and the metro in Russia: • Is the metro now only for Moscow? The fate of the... How did Germany defeat traffic jams? Transport revolution using Leipzig as an example: • How did Germany defeat traffic jams? Trans... -------- The Wuppertal Suspension Railway is the oldest operating monorail in the world and one of the oldest operating off-street transport systems in Europe after Budapest, London and Paris, it is a year older than the Berlin U-Bahn. Wuppertal is stretched along the narrow valley of the Wupper River and climbed up its slope. At that time, the river was not regulated and could overflow heavily, so the supports had to be on the banks, which is why they are triangular in shape. Of the 13 km in length, 10 run above the river, and only 2.8 above the streets. The Wuppertal railway is non-automatic, the carriages are driven by drivers. The other two such railways in Germany are automatic, located in the same state of North Rhine-Westphalia and appeared at the end of the 20th, beginning of the 21st century: H-Bahn in Dortmund (1984) and SkyTrain Düsseldorf (2002). In both cases, this is not urban transport, but local delivery. In the case of Düsseldorf, this is a 2.5 km line between the airport terminals and the railway station. In Dortmund, this is 3 km on the territory of the Dortmund University of Technology, between two parts of the campus, divided by a ravine, the S-Bahn station, the technology center and the bus stop. -------- For cooperation inquiries: [email protected] Support the project team: ✅ Boost (for Russian cards): https://boosty.to/gershman ✅ Via Telegram (any card): https://t.me/gre4ark/21130 ✅ YouTube sponsorship (for foreign cards): youtube.com/arkadiygershman/join ✅ Patreon (for foreign cards): / gershman -------- Telegram: https://t.me/gre4ark TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSJEse2Gf/ Twitter: / arkadiygershman VK: http://vk.com/gre4ark FB: / gre4ark Insta: / gre4ark Blog with text posts: http://urbanblog.ru -------- My name is Arkady Gershman, for the last ten years I have been I promote a healthy attitude towards the city (google City for people). To put it simply, I am an urbanist with an unhealthy love for transport. I am not an architect, so I will not tell you about the choice of materials or different styles of architecture, but I will tell you about the correct urban development policy, how to lay a tram, what a street should be like and how to make a park without drug addicts and alcoholics. -------- Timestamps: 00:00 Wuppertal Suspension Railway 01:13 Why did the Germans build this? 04:36 The kids are delighted! 05:05 The story of Tuffy the elephant 06:04 Pseudo-history and inaccessible transport 08:50 Moscow and Wuppertal 10:14 An insanely expensive attraction 11:52 Wuppertal Tram and Schwebebahn