Perugia's Minimetro

[JimboJones]

Perugia (Italy), a city of 150,000 residents, is home to the Minimetro public transit system. It moves up to 3,000 passengers per hour in each direction. The cars are 5.7 meters long and pulled along the track by six kilometers of rope powered by electric motors.

Up to 25 cars can run at any one time. Each car can hold up to 50 passengers. There are seven stops along the three kilometers of track and cars arrive as quickly as 60-seconds apart, virtually eliminating wait times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0P72qNOD0M

- Happy Rails? - Azure magazine, September, 2008

 

[ablarc]

I see the tradition of painting on walls is alive and [perhaps too] well in Padua. Giotto kickstarted Renaissance art in Padua by painting on the Scrovegni Chapel's walls.

He was paid by the grateful owners, who have preserved his work for 700 years. Tourists troop to see them.

Wonder what the tourists think of today's muralists' work.