Chongqing looks like a very unique place. They essentially became a metropolis with huge population growth (3% per year, in a city of 16 million). People are definitely noticing the city now more than ever. If you remember the "ghost/abandoned subway station", that was in Chongqing (and it's not abandoned anymore): https://twitter.com/prolewiki/status/1662838653381484545
You think that's bad, we did <500 views on this 30+ likes tweet: https://twitter.com/prolewiki/status/1663461215878692871
Since february or so our reach got absolutely destroyed, but we're slowly climbing back up somehow. I mean, we're talking a whopping 10% engagement rate on the tweet above, sometimes we even get more than 20%. We don't seem to be shadowbanned either, so no idea what caused it.
Edit: I misreported the view count, it was actually much lower
Hey, that's the city with the train running through a building !
It looks cool but I would imagine it gets really noisy inside when the train runs through.
To prevent train noise from affecting residents, the entire station environment is constructed with materials designed to reduce noise and vibration, while the train can only operate during daylight hours and at a very low maximum speed. This minimizes the disturbance and vibrations of the train, which become similar to those of a traditional subway system. One of the main advantages of this facility is that it allows residents to access the train directly without having to leave the building, which is ideal especially on days of heavy rain that are common in Chongqing. or the railway line, the main advantage is the possibility of continuing its route without the need to opt for alternative solutions that would considerably divert its route and reduce its efficiency.
From: https://meettheearth.org/2021/11/28/the-train-through-a-building-in-china-liziba-station/
That place looks so much more appealing and more alive than the bleak glass and steel western techbro standard. :corporate-art:
The stairs in the foreground are supported by a column at the top but only a cantilever at the bottom. Thats a pulling force from above - concrete is bad with tension - and a rotating force on the bridge from the left column to the stairs. There really should be some support at the bottom of the stairs like there is in the background.
See all the stains on the sides of those buildings? That's air pollution. The rain washes it out of the air and leaves it on buildings. Imagine living there for a couple of years, you get that in your lungs.
Is it? Concrete looks like that without air pollution, too. Though Chongqing does have plenty of air pollution.
Isn't Chongqing located between a couple of moutains, which traps the hot air (with all its polutants) among the residents? I seem to remember somebody pointing out that Chongqing had the same geographical problems as Los Angeles had in it's early industrial phase.
Yeah they get inversions.
Someday they'll eliminate burning stuff and it'll clear up, but that will be a significant transition.
Isn't like half the city also build directly up the side of one of the mountains, which leads to the insane elevation differences?
So that is where we have outsourced all our pollution to. I wonder if we could calculate how many funcopops it took for each case of lung cancer
