It's the stoner-Finn-foamer on board, please bear or skip :D
Sad thing that Wuppertal monorail is fossilized to its current form. It would be awesome if it formed a proper network, with several lines. I think for logistical reasons, they would need to use fully separated track. Oh, and apparently Wuppertal used to have trams too. There is this one bridge where no one ever managed to get a shot (from bottom to top) of a tram, suspension monorail and local train in the same picture :D
I've been interested of Manchester system lately, if I may blabber a little. The current Trafford park extension seems to lenghten the fast mainline kind of track into Warfside, where it adruptly stops and turns into twisty-tangly street tram. I understand, most of the easy railway right of way has now been claimed and stuff like reclaiming any parts of Tyldesley loopline are more or less ludicrous. I've also studied the city center maps carefully must add, should Manchester ever want to make a "third city crossing" or extend the fast track into Victoria or Piccadilly - good luck, there are no easy options, if large scale tunneling is not considered.
What a system, and what an expansion rate! I too am happy though, that here the urban planning seems to finally begin to kick into high gear, for a chance. After 40 years of hangover from more or less botched metro opening (sufficiently say, there were all sorts of political interests, protectionism, and export aspirations - people got jailed). The thing was mocked as "the most expensive, northest, shortest and heaviest metro line in the world". Boondlogle it was not called though, as at least zoning was somewhat successfully syncronized with it.
>>1094317"I bathe in joy, live in a house that looks like a kilo of butter, in a boxed hut, an apartment where I can sleep and wash; I'm very proud of it, the both square meters are tidy - the pests wont find home here!" :)
Also, "house with an AVARA-loan, may not always be so spacious".
