Ian
ianpatterson.com
Ian
@ianpatterson.com
We live in a funny world: just making the most of it, one day at a time. Tweeter. Liberaler. Quiddler. Un buveur d’encre. A recovering frog after slowly cooking in Musks cauldron for too long.
... have to wonder if there's the beginnings of new abandoner here though too: apartment buildings built with space for car clubs not resident cars, but the car clubs and car sharing have yet to take off there, so unfinished communal space becomes residents car parking.
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
... as well as now the move to realise 1960 city planners dream of having roads separated from pedestrians, except not its the roads being buried and the people who get the surface space.
youtu.be/Oavm1oDt_Xo?...
This was supposed to be a Highway
YouTube video by Brian Alex
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November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
... was reopened to relive over crowding. Within 6 months they were all open, and refurbished in the 1990s. One though is closed - again. In 2020, it became a ghost again, replaced by a new line intersecting station about 100m away.
youtu.be/jN0O8OkAC5E?...
Berlin’s Last Ghost Station
YouTube video by Brian Alex
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
... from 1963 the Wall cut off the stations on the U Bahn networks 3 lines that ran under E Berlin, with all traces of many of them removed from the surface by East Berlin. When the Wall fell in 1989, Friedrichstrasse was reopened immediately to E Germans. Two days later the first ghost station...
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM