A stunning little time lapse video of some of the public transport offerings in Vienna, Austria:
Best watched at a reasonably high definition.
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A stunning little time lapse video of some of the public transport offerings in Vienna, Austria:
Best watched at a reasonably high definition.
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Public transport in Vienna truly is the standard to which Auckland should aspire. It’s reasonably-priced, coverage is superb, and services run from very early in the morning until very early in the morning.
Running Sushi and Running Fondue??- (minute 1:07).
Haha, we Austrians are always moving so even our sushi is running. Jokes, its nothing else than a sushi train.
Running Sushi was also in Prague and my wife and I were obsessed with it.
Why are Austro-Hungarian cities so great? Even in Transylvania, the old German/Hungarian cities are just so well designed and picturesque, especially compared to the disastrous Romanian built cities in Wallachia and Moldova like Bucharest and Iasi.
http://vimeo.com/102051605 (Pyongyang)
Wow. Fantastic! Definitely got to go there, if only to ride the Pyongyang PT system. Great stuff!
Looks like Phil Hayward’s dream city. I mean widespread poverty and hunger but no congestion that I could see. Perfect!
He would have also enjoyed Bucharest before 1989. When filming movies in Bucharest, they used to hold traffic back until there were enough to make it look like there was actually traffic.
Matt, you are absolutely right that Vienna should be one of Auckland’s bench marks. And it is so unbelievably cheap that there is little reason to use private transport. And it works in a city of only about 1.8m people.
And with such examples why does AT use comparators like Wellington and Perth when examining park and ride?
But as good as Vienna’s public transport is, when I spoke to someone from there not two weeks ago they were justifiably proud, but said that it pales against that of Munich!
Having lived in Munich and in Vienna, I cannot confirm that the Munich system is better. The frequency and usage in Vienna is way higher particularly of the subway. But for comparing cities, Vienna as Munich are just the center of the metropolitan areas (what is basically Auckland Supercity). So Vienna is nearly 2.5 to 3 million within the reach of the S-Bahn system. Munich similarly is something around 2 million.
I enjoyed using both the Munich and Vienna systems when I visited a few years ago. I particularly like how both U-Bahn systems deal with the central city.