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title: Why Wuppertal’s Suspended Monorail Wasn’t The Future Of Travel — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/why-wuppertals-suspended-monorail-wasnt-the-future-of-travel/
date: 2016-01-26
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# Why Wuppertal’s Suspended Monorail Wasn’t The Future Of Travel

In Wuppertal, Germany, there’s the Schwebebahn: a suspended monorail that carries 80,000 people a day above the streets of the city, and above the river Wupper. It’s a wonderful thing: but it wasn’t the future of travel, and here’s why.