The longest outdoor escalator in the world

Hello friends of form and design, known as the mountain city, this gigantic metropolis in China was built on cliffs, valleys and steep slopes, there moving from one neighborhood to another often means going up or down hundreds of meters in height, for many inhabitants of Wushan county, for example, simple daily tasks always required long walks on narrow roads and very steep slopes.

In some cases, an upload could take almost an hour, now that has completely changed. The city has just inaugurated an impressive system known as the Wushan Goddess Escalator, with a length of 905 m it became the longest outdoor escalator in the world, but the project goes far beyond a single staircase, it is actually a complex vertical transportation network that accompanies the natural environment of the mountain.

The system includes 21 escalators, eight elevators, four moving walkways and several pedestrian walkways. Together, these structures connect different levels of the city along a route that reaches 242 m in height, approximately the equivalent of an 80-story building. The most interesting thing is that the entire project was designed to follow the shape of the mountain instead of artificially cutting the slope. This preserves the region's natural landscape, including the famous views of Goddess Gorge and the Three Gorges.

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