September 2014
Perhaps, my love for Prague trams began exactly somewhere there.
In autumn 2014, just after moving to Prague, I decided to go to the DPP open day - the transport company in Prague. They promised to show trams and metro, and I hadn't really seen them yet :) Why not go.
I didn't go to look at buses, because they annoy me.
But metro - after Moscow everything else is crap, but wanted to look.
Needed to go to the bottom of the red line, there were quite a few people, many children.
Metro trains almost all run the same.
You could examine everything in detail, they let you into the cabin too.
Kids were allowed to click everything, I was shy, but wanted to too.
From there we wanted to get to the tram depot, but just then over the loudspeaker they announced that a "historical" composition was leaving soon. Well, I couldn't miss that.
What is a "historical" composition?
:)
It's a metro car exactly like the ones still running in Moscow, just with old filling. In Moscow in 2013 such ones definitely still ran, I really enjoyed the softness and coolness of the seats when I managed to beat all the city's pensioners.
Czechs were pleased :)
And we went to the trams. I'll be honest - by that moment I'd ridden a tram about 2 times in my life, and didn't particularly love them - in Moscow I rode the tram at night already, got lost, rode god knows how, and had to buy a separate ticket.
Tram-cleaner. I confess, except here you won't see it anywhere :)
In the depot stood all tram models that run through the city. Around harsh noise - kids sit in every cabin and ring. Prague tram drivers love to ring their bell and chase away Prague drivers, of which there are plenty here.
The newest model at that time. One of my least favorites, because it has wooden seats, and your ass slides on them. But a couple of my colleagues from new media like them, because they're more hygienic than fabric ones. Truth is somewhere nearby.
Next to it stands my favorite model, one of the modifications of the legendary Tatra-T3, which I also extremely love.
Kids like it. Me too.
It was also interesting to see how the depot is arranged.
How they control all this.
Where trams sleep.
And most interesting, the monitoring system. One of my long-time dreams is to make it so you can watch online where your bus or tram is going, and so you can plan routes intelligently. Need to get to it sometime.
And from there again a "historical" car was leaving. This time an adequate one :)
Somewhere there my love for trams began :) There's no better transport than trams.
