The most beautiful architecture for pedestrians: Zurich is not the only place where they go underground

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100 million francs for 400 metres. The city of Zurich is planning a lively walking path that will go directly from the Stadelhofen train station to the Kunsthaus. A lot of money for a short distance but maximum comfort for pedestrians. However, it is not only Zurich that invests in luxury transportation vehicles; There are magnificent escalators, moving walkways and elevators all over the world, and some of them have become real tourist attractions. But sometimes, there are stumbling hazards.

Sliding underground through a city is not a Zurich invention: you can be transported more than 300 meters under Sydney’s botanical gardens without taking a single step. The scroll, on the side walls of which scenes from Aboriginal life are depicted, is considered the longest scroll in the world. However, if the Zurich 100 million project were to be built, it would be longer: the long Zurich variant is estimated to be 400 meters.

You can move as fast as if you were jogging around the Montparnasse metro station in Paris: nine kilometers per hour. The conveyor belt was originally running at 12 km/h, but as rows of people were lying face down, the conveyor belt was slowed down again and a system was installed at the beginning and end to facilitate the transition to solid ground. . Being fast isn’t everything.

In Hong Kong, instead of wandering around the city, you can easily do this on escalators, in the fresh air and under cover. The world’s longest escalator is 800 meters long and climbs to a height of 135 meters and is, of course, a tourist attraction.

This is not propaganda: The world’s longest indoor escalator is in Russia. Until 2011, the Moscow metro station was located in Park Pobedi. It goes down 126 meters. The longest since then is St. Proceeding through Admiralteiskaya station in St. Petersburg. It is 137 meters long.

Elevators can be amazing too. The most beautiful but also the most explosive elevator of all time no longer exists: the aquarium, which also served as an elevator at the Radisson Hotel in Berlin, exploded on December 16, 2022, due to the weak material of the plexiglass used. Most of the 1,500 fish died and two people were injured. It will not be rebuilt.

There is a beautiful UNESCO World Heritage site next to Zhangjiajie, China. Natural sandstone columns rise into the sky. To get a better look at them, tourists can use the observation elevator, which rises to 296 meters.

By the way, Switzerland also has a spectacular open-air lift: the Hammetschwand cable car in Bürgenstock NW reaches 152.8 meters, making it the highest open-air lift in Europe. It opens onto a plateau with the most beautiful view of Lake Lucerne. And, as befits Switzerland, it has a license “for normal and commercial passenger transport”. By the way, the elevator is on the Lucerne property. Honor where honor is due.

Source : Blick