What is stunning about the video is the 120 year old motion picture in a city still without cars, side by side showing the same route with modern traffic (the modern version was edited to match speed).
Here an article about it from The Guardian:
“It looks like something imagined by Jules Verne”
True. And somehow this sentence makes me cry. What if we used technology only to make peoples lives happier and better?
And here wiki with many technical details:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn
It’s unique as it was a special solution to build an urban railway in a narrow valley.
In all the time, it had a single serious accident, in 1999. So comparatively, it is a very safe means of transport.
I have never used it but I remember be riding in an electric trolley bus as a child in Duisburg with my mother …
I think it’s the music that’s giving nostalgic feelings about this…but it is true that in the 1900 decade there was a lot of promise and no time to misuse it yet.
Besides all tech progress was visible as something concrete, unlike since the 70s due to miniaturization of microchips and the transfer to software.