With the new tram system in Liège, lots of car lanes were replaced with grassy tram tracks
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This is the future I want
And? Is there a lawnmower tram?
Just a standard one
I really ask myself why this is not a thing. Because the costs of mowing the grass are one argument of cities against having grass on the tracks.
What if you could affix a lawnmower attachment to a normal tram and have it mow the grass on its normal route?
I briefly passed by Liège-Guillemins last year and walked a bit around to see it was still in construction.
I'm glad to see it's now working.
Also, this made me chuckle a bit.
Something about that poster strikes me as being somewhat… derivative…
It's a noble goal and a good message but it's kind of ruined by the smaller patronizing text. It's weird to tell people that the tram always has priority, but the people's security is its priority. They should pick one.
30 metres to stop is pretty good performance though. A freight train with Belgian braking rules would take up to 2km to stop.
Looking really fun to play on
Especially blindfolded with headphones in
For comparison in Berlin it's real grass and it's wilding and I love it (well as much as it can have already for early spring)
The main point is that it’s not a sealed surface, ie it can take up water
How exactly is a lawn not grass?
I'll have to disagree. Yeah lawns are bad and all but your argument is also incorrect.
A meadow has grass and other flowering plants.
A purely grass lawn is still grass.
Oh I understand what you're saying now.
The OP said the grass/lawn is new, so the quickest way to lay down grass is with sod, i.e. rolls of cultivated grass mat.
It's just a start, and the flowers and other diverse plants will come later as seeds naturally disperse onto the new greenways.
It's up to whatever government department maintains the tramways how they want to maintain the greenways.
Maybe they mean it's artificial grass?
This is neat! We've got lots of trams in Cologne, but i've never seen grassy tram tracks around here.
why does this look SOOO fun to have a pick-nick on? it genuinely looks perfect for thad..,
Ah yes, the T1 normal line to just a standard destination
In case you were wondering: that terminus is at the football stadium of the club of Liège which is called Standard
Appreciate the info, i was about talking shit tho
Now you can get run over in style.