 | Arne Adolfsen wrote:
>Madrid's Cuatro Caminos subway station is a horror for those with
fear
>of heights (which I do fear) and borderline sufferers from vertigo
>(ditto). It's the junction of four separate subway lines in the
>northwest of Madrid, each line's tunnel built under the other. I've
>twice experienced traveling by escalator from the top tunnel to the
>bottom on four several-story-tall escalators for each level, not to
>mention the one bringing you underground in the first place.
Lisbon has a good subway system, but it also has a similar horror.
Where the Gaviota and Caravela lines in downtown Lisbon they are one
on top of the other, but the higher one is built quite a bit above in
a hill and the exit in the Bairro Alto is way above that.
Fortunately, I guess, by the time I realized what the deal was I was
well up and realized with no end in sight that climbing would not have
been an option. I glanced back once, and stared at my feet for most
of the rest of the trip up, making an emphatic mental note to never
exit at the Baixa-Chiado stop again.
I also never use the Santa Justa Elevador which takes one in a
free-standing elevator (designed by Eiffel or one of his assistants)
up the same distance from the Baixa to the Bairro Alto. If you are
not afraid of heights it is a glorious view at the top.
>Terrifying is the only word I can think for it.
Ditto this one, and it sounds not quite as fearsome.
Jack
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