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Quality
of life
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Vienna is one of the world's cities with the highest quality
of life (see annual studies/statistics by Mercer
and the Economist).
One of the criteria for its high ranking: Vienna's public
transport system. A vital part of the city's infrastructure
and one of Europe's most modern: the first underground line
opened in 1978 (there are now five lines, soon to be six).
An annual ticket costing €365 was purchased by more than
800,000 people in 2019.
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If you
want to see the city, get on a tram
In addition to its underground system Vienna has over 200km
of tramlines making it one of the largest city-wide
tram systems in the world, and
an integral part of Viennese daily life.
And the great thing about the trams? Stay on them long enough
and you end up where you started. It's impossible to get lost
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"The car has become
an article of dress without
which we feel uncertain,
unclad and incomplete
in the urban compound."
Marshall
McLuhan
(1911-80)
Understanding Media (1964)
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