2020-06-12
49 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, James Harkin and Anna Tijinski and once again,
we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with you, Andy.
My fact is that Paris' first public transport system failed
because wealthy passengers bought all the seats for themselves and then persuaded the government to ban poor people.
Wow.
Incredible.
But if they were selling all the tickets, surely that's not a failure?
Well, then the rich apparently just lost interest and then stopped using it and then no one was using it,
so it was a complete disaster.
This is from an article on Lapham's Quarterly, which is an amazing website.
It's really brilliant.
It's got so many fascinating things on it and it's partly based on this brilliant sounding book about buses,
which is called Engine of Modernity by Masha Belenki.
Andy, have you already moved on from funicular railways then?
I'm afraid so.
So this was called, these were called the Caross and it was set up by Blaise Pascal.