On GERMAN hauptbahnhofen...
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We arrived in Berlin's new and AMAZING Hauptbahnhof (central train station), which cost 900 million euros to construct. This station was absolutely incredible. It was basically a massive shopping mall/transport hub.....how fun that you can go shoe shopping while waiting for the train! This picture shows just a few of the 5 levels in the building to accomodate the various integration of transport:
Level -2: U-Bahn (Berlin's underground rail network)
Level -1: U-Bahn
Level E: Berlin's Trams and Busses
Level 1: The S-Bahn train (Berlin's surface rail)
Level 2: The DB trains (Deutsch Bahn rail company), including RE (regional trains) and ICE (high-speed rail)
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FYI for those of you in the Bay Area, and interested in sustainable transport, in particular in the developing world:
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The Global Metropolitan Studies Program will host Lee Schipper, Director of Research, EMBARQ, The World Resources Institute’s Center for Sustainable Transport for a lecture on Tuesday, August 29 at 4 PM in 104 Wurster Hall. (UC Berkeley)
Schipper's talk is titled "Making Urban Transport Sustainable: Notes from 4 1/2 Years on the Street in Developing Cities in Asia and Latin America."
One of the unspoken challenges of the 21st century will be to stop mass poverty and environmental degradation from engulfing developing country cities of today and tomorrow. For the past three years EMBARQ the transport and environment center founded by the World Resources Institute and the Shell Foundation has risen to the challenge by establishing a string of sustainable mobility projects with major cities across the
world. EMBARQ’s most recent success was the launch of a new Metrobus
system in Mexico City.
The UC Transportation Center's Fall Reception will follow from 5-7 PM in
the Wurster first floor lobby.
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i don't get that previous entry... whatever. see you saturday in göttingen ;-)
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