Vienna is Slowly Cooling Down

| No Comments | No TrackBacks

As a part of my annual whining about how air-conditioning is nearly non-existant in Austria, I'd like to present you with the following facts:

The first air-conditioned subway cars in New York City began operation in 1967. The Vienna subway opened twelve years later, in 1979, and none of its brand-new cars were air-conditioned. In 1987 the next generation of subway cars were rolled out (they look almost identical to the first ones), but these weren't air-conditioned either. Finally in 2000 a prototype of the third generation was rolled out, and it's air-conditioned. It won't be until late this year before more of these start rolling out, however.

So Vienna is 33 years behind in subway car technology, at least concerning air-conditioning. I can recommend the Austrian Federal Railways' S45 line though, as it seems to now be run with brand new air-conditioned trains, as I experienced last night:


Inside a Talent Train on the S45 in Vienna

No TrackBacks

TrackBack URL: http://newkai.com/mt3/mt-tb.cgi/467

Leave a comment

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by Kai published on June 15, 2005 1:48 PM.

I Refuse to Yuppify was the previous entry in this blog.

Nude Airport is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Pages

OpenID accepted here Learn more about OpenID
Powered by Movable Type 5.01