Just Jack

I noticed a few things in Barcelona that are different from Blighty that I thought worth a mention.

• Large bins in the street have foot pedals to open them removing the need for (presumably full) hands to do the opening.
• Some steep hills (for instance near Park Guell) have street escalators.
• Street and metro escalators slow down when not in use. Is this to save energy?
• The metro isn’t plastered with adverts like the London Underground but they do have TV displays in the stations and in the trains that display metro information and ads.
• Metro train doors don’t open automatically. Another energy saving trick?
• Metro trains are very much like London’s ‘Bendy Buses’. Carriages are connected and individuals can walk from one end of the train to another unimpeded.
• Arrows in the carriages light up before a station is reached, indicating which side of the carriage to exit on.
• Metro security (ie. not the police) carry large truncheons.

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Missed this the first time around.

Signs.

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