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Five human dead in 125 years is a record to envy for most transit systems. (Light rail likes to run into pedestrians, almost as much as buses.) And it was a maintenance failure, not an operator or structural one.

Not to count the baby elephant that fell out of one car back in 1950.

Wuppertal is a wonderful ride for many thousands daily, millions for decades, and is a wonderful model of visual, sane, safe engineered public transport.



> Not to count the baby elephant that fell out of one car back in 1950.

Heavens to Betsy! And the elephant lived... till 1989! :)

> Wuppertal is a wonderful ride for many thousands daily, millions for decades, and is a wonderful model of visual, sane, safe engineered public transport.

Is ja jut, ich kauf' den Tagespass.



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