r/interestingasfuck • u/HomeNowWTF • 22h ago

Tram airbags, coming soon to Zurich

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u/1B75__Penicillin 22h ago

It's a tram, they are all slow

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u/herdek550 16h ago edited 5h ago

Depends on what you consider slow. For example in Prague, there are sections where trams go up to 60 km/h (~37 mph).

Edit: The speed is lower in crowded city center, but it's not unusual to have crosswalk crossing a tram tracks where tram goes 45 km/h (pedestrians don't have priority over tram even on crosswalk)

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u/NucleosynthesizedOrb 14h ago

In the Utrecht Science Park, the fast sections are fenced and the sections where people may cross the tram goes slower

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u/Narrow-Barracuda618 12h ago

Yup, same in Zürich.

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u/CrestedMacaw 5h ago

You wish... Trams in our city can go 80 km/h and they do on certain straight parts of the routes. And that's just because the law of our country doesn't allow bigger speed than 80 km/h in the settlements (the normal limit is 50 km/h but a town/city can add up to other 30 km/h max if they decide it's ok).

And if there were not such a restriction, for example outside of the city, the trams could actually go even faster.