The tram line behind our house recently got new tracks. While at it, they planted new greenery and it looks awesome!
They already survived the first heatwave (ʃƪ^3^)
Wow, this looks ideed very beautiful. But aren’t people running across the tracks back and forth are therby destroying the greenery?
There’s no need to do this. At the station and at sensible points between are traffic lights which switches to green right after you press the pedestrian button and railings between them to prevent people walking on the rails. So they cross the tracks there and not everywhere.
In more urban parts the tracks are either directly on the road and obviously no greenery or the tracks are sepetated by railings and sometimes a “wall of green”. But in the city we are also encouraged to not do this by having walking ways away from traffic (parks, inner city) and the traffic going around it.
E.g. I prefer to walk in the bike street with the huge shady trees and the nice old facades instead of the hot and busy main street on the other side of these pretty houses. If I need to go to another part of the city I’ll use the nice street until I can use a tunnel to cross the street and then again use a less busy street to continue my walk.
I fucking LOVE tracks like this
It looks awesome, is low maintenance and doesn’t heat up like the streets around. I share your sentiment :D
Yes, exactly! It sucks up heat and helps to keep the temperatures down.
I absolutely love seeing greenery, especially if it’s anything other than lawns.
Mega