Cars drive over receptors and generate power

A pineapple, mango and passion fruit freeze pop. A local fave.

A stairway -- the escalators are replacing these

The Nuns and the Cardinal by Debora Arango

The gondola system goes from the station, up & over the hill and down the other side

Metrorail, Gondolas & Escalators

20 febbraio, Colombia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

In 1995, two years after the demise of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian govt decided that the way out of the troubles was to invest in the poor people.
They built a metrorail that connected the far reaches of the city with downtown. They connected the terminal stations with a gondola system that went into the hills. And lastly, they built escalators in the hillsides to replace the long, long staircases to where the poor people lived.
The result was that the workers be could get to the workplace. We sampled all three modes of transit today and the system works.Leggi altro

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