25.12.2007 10:31
Elevator
Wuppertal is a city constructed on several hills. Every morning, when I go to work, I walk down one, and climb up another. The Ölberg where I live is actually quite steep, such that there are several stairs (one of them the famous Tippen-Tappen-Tönchen, leading up. Some time ago I came up with the idea that it would be convenient to have an elevator going up inside the mountain. Anyhow, in Lisbon a city equally built on seven hills (so much for the similarities...) has such a thing.
They have it since 1900 or so. BTW, also Bern has it, going down from the Münster Plattform). Of course both these cities also have funiculars to go up and down the hill. In Wuppertal all these things were demolished in the 70/80ies. Sometimes I wonder why the Schwebebahn survived.
