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 …
If we mention the new version was edited to match speeds by that channel, then we should probably also mention the old version was, of course, originally in black and white and needed to be upscaled for this 1 to 1 comparison by the channel Denis Shiryaev. The original 1902 film was taken from the museum of modern art (moma watermark)'s channel.
Still, amazing how we’re able to have a pretty good guess what a place looked like to people 100 years ago, before our hubris and malice led us to the most destructive wars ever seen.