As you all know very well, that bicycling is an inexpensive
and healthy way to get around, but a steep hill can become a casual cyclist’s
Achilles’ heel. Fortunately, the Norwegian city of Trondheim has a solution to
this problem a “bike escalator”.
This is well invented in the 1990’s by a commuter
who grew tired of showing up to work sweaty and tired, the Trampe lift, freshly
upgraded and reinvented as the “CycloCable”, has already carried over 200,000
bicyclists up this 150m-long cyclist deterrent. The inquisitive escalator has
become a sightseer electromagnet as well.
The Cyclists who place one foot on the
escalator’s angled platform will be pushed uphill at a speed of five mph. Up to
five people can use it at the same time and it is not limited to bicycles, as
it can carry basically any trivial wheeled transport with its owner, be it a
kid with scooter or a mother with a baby stroller.
Installing this invention is obviously a great
way to boost cycling in hilly cities, but they’ll have to be quite busy one
meter of this elevator costs around USD 2,000 to 3,000. Fantastic! What an improvement
for cyclists. Just love the kid with his scooter and woman with the pram Ingenious.
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