Barcelonian Tram Tracks Detailed with Grass
by on 11.25.04
The Barcelonian Engineers that designed these tracks clearly subscribe to a similar vision to TreeHugger. What a great idea! Instead of hard, ugly, impervious asphalt we get lovely, green, air purifying, water filtering, micro-habitat creating, sigh inducing grass. Right up to the damn tracks non etheless. Good work Barcelonians! [by Graham Hill] Thanks Mr. Charlie Scott for pics!
How lovely! This reminds me of the 'Country Lanes' project in Vancouver, where back alleys (between main thoroughfares) were 'grassed'. To avoid the grass being torn up by e.g garbage trucks the engineers using a honeycomb material called Golpla so that the trucks actually ride a few cm above the grass. Ingenious. More info here: http://www.tc.gc.ca/programs/environment/UTSP/greeninglocaltransportation.htm
Great blog, by the way!
Have you ever seen the old trolley line in New Orleans? Or were those weeds....
Thanks for making ECOol.