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#Tram

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Saw the special track cleaning tram-lorry go past my house earlier, including bonus conversion from running on rails to running on tarmac at the end of the road.

Outweighs the DB-branded blue light emergency vehicle I saw half an hour later.

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Tomorrow the #Tram di #Opicina 🇮🇹 enters its third and for now final phase operating with three trams in regular service. In total 29 services will run daily in both directions between #Trieste Piazza Dalmazia and Opicina, providing an interval of every 28 minutes from 7 am to 9 pm. In the morning one additional services starts from Vetta Scorcola.

Official timetable:
triestetrasporti.it/sites/defa

Natürlich ging's heute nicht um eine Reisebusfahrt auf der Warschauer Allee (A2), die war nur Zubringer für die Braunschweiger Interessengemeinschaft Nahverkehr (BIN), die anlässlich ihres 30-jährigen Jubiläums eine Sonderfahrt in Magdeburg veranstaltete. Gefahren wurde dabei mit dem historischen Wagen 70 aus 1943 und Beiwagen 300 aus 1910.

Zunächst ging es über Olvenstedter Platz und Westring nach Sudenburg, wo das historische Depot und die Heimat der beiden Wagen passiert wurde. Leider wurde - Versehen oder nicht -eine klassische Stadtführung gebucht, so dass es nicht in das Depot ging und das obwohl ein Straßenbahnverein kutschiert wurde. Dafür kann ich nun vom kleinsten Haus Magdeburgs berichten, in dem sogar mal drei Familien wohnten.

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@slothrop Having been to Vienna, I strongly second this.

The metro trains run every 5 minutes or better, and likewise trams. They're incredibly punctual.

And no, Americans reading this, that's not a typo.

Almost every destination you'll want to see is either near a metro station or a tram stop.

Belvedere palace? Tram stop. Schonbrunn palace? Metro. St Stephen's Cathedral/Stephensplatz? Metro. Museum district? Metro.

Many parts of the city centre have been pedestrianised.

But aside from all that, especially if you're from the US, Venna almost certainly has better public transport than your hometown.

And I think part of the Vienna experience is being in a city with world-class public transport.

#Tram#Train#Austria