The Wuppertal Schwebebahn Is Real And It Is My Friend | Defector
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WUPPERTAL, Germany — When my friend in Cologne asked me if I might want to take a day trip, thanks to Cologne’s proximity to various other notable cities (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Bonn, among others), I said that I would like to go to Wuppertal to ride the Schwebebahn. To which they said, “I knew that’s what…
  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    11 days ago

    “Here I will confess that I was anticipating the Schwebebahn to be a novelty, more of a gimmick than a real transit route, like Los Angeles’s Angels Flight funicular or San Francisco’s cable cars… I was immediately proven incorrect”

    Tell me you’re American without saying you’re American.