"I'm puzzled when people say the Swiss have good transportation because they're rich. It has nothing to do with that. They're still using trams from 1970. They restore them every 7 years. Making do is part of the culture. If you're using trams for 50 years, that's a hell of a savings."
βNorman Garrick
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@straphanger Sustainability isnβt such good news here for people with strollers or wheelchairs β you still have to climb three steps. #Basel solved this decades ago by adding low-floor segments to their old trams. In #Zurich, thatβs still often not the case, as with line 17 #tram in the photo.
π· Kurt Rasmussen
@oa: I beg to differ: Except for the very short and only auxilliary line 15, all currently used trams in Zurich have a least one low floor entrance/section, also the line 7 (not 17) in that photo: Actually these trams were AFAIK the first ones in Zurich to offer a lower floor for wheelchairs and strollers: That's why they were called "SΓ€nfte": Because they added a low floor middle part the non-low-floor "Tram 2000".
You can actually see the lowered window line in that picture.
Cc @straphanger
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