{"id":332,"date":"2005-06-15T13:48:45","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T13:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2005-06-15T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T13:48:45","slug":"vienna-is-slowly-cooling-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/2005\/vienna-is-slowly-cooling-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Vienna is Slowly Cooling Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of my annual whining about how air-conditioning is nearly non-existant in Austria, I&#8217;d like to present you with the following facts:<br \/>\nThe 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&#8217;t air-conditioned either. Finally in 2000 a prototype of the third generation was rolled out, and it&#8217;s air-conditioned. It won&#8217;t be until late this year before more of these start rolling out, however.<br \/>\nSo Vienna is 33 years behind in subway car technology, at least concerning air-conditioning. I can recommend the Austrian Federal Railways&#8217; S45 line though, as it seems to now be run with brand new air-conditioned trains, as I experienced last night:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/DSC01171.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/DSC01171.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/DSC01171-thumb.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>Inside a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talent_%28train%29\" target=\"new\">Talent Train<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiener_Vorortelinie\" target=\"new\">S45<\/a> in Vienna<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparison of the air-conditioning status on New York City and Vienna subway lines. Photo of the inside of a Talent train on the S45, which is air-conditioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}