This video is amazing! It shows a market in Bangkok, Thailand that operates literally on top of the train tracks.
Los segundos pisos atienden la demanda de una ciudad que vive bajo un concepto de individualidad que ya no responde a las necesidades de las megalópolis del Siglo XXI. Es preciso desarrollar un diseño inteligente de sistemas de transporte público que permitan la reducción de emisiones contaminantes. Las soluciones parciales, focalizadas, no sistémicas, envían el falaz mensaje de “resolver el problema de movilidad”, empero…
Last Friday, sustainable transport advocates came a step closer to gaining widespread support for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in India when Bangalore officials announced that the government will move ahead with the implementation of the …
As the latest installment of its series Moving through the Recession, TheCityFix DC conducted an email interview with Thomas Harrington, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Director of Long-Range Planning. Parts 1 and 2 …
As for Mixed use, try the Skytrain i bangkok. You can take your cat for a haircut in the station! This is a picture I took in the skytrain….
This is not the only moving object with these properties. An old train in Manila ran by a large area inhabited by squatters. They used to throw their trash on the top of the train, a kind of mobile dispos-ile. The train operators got wise and reshaped the train’s roof into a triangle, so that anything tossed up fell, often on the other side.
The point, of course is that space, whether stationary or mobile, is scarce!
Here’s another interesting train image from India:
Wow, that’s what I call mixed-use!