Since Oerlikon lies between Zurich airport and downtown Zurich, in switzerland, I'm guessing the time on the clock in the image is accurate. switzerland and time keeping have long been intertwined and while they invented the quartz movement and blindly gave it away to the Japanese, quality Swiss time pieces remain the standard to beat.
Taken from a window at the Swissotel here, one afternoon in 1990, the scene reminds me of my brother's model railway when I was much, much, younger.
I was on my way back to libya, my vacation in the Philippines at an end. My itinerary had me routed through Zurich on Swiss Air which meant an overnight stay in Zurich. While I found the bars an discos of Sabang beach too raucous, I found Oerlikon to be rather dull – it was, for want of a better phrase, closed. Maybe it was a Sunday.
The fine people of Zurich had long since figured out how to make their trams run on time – they had hang-time built into each stop. My guess was that in traffic, the trams didn't wind up waiting at the stops but every tram that stopped here on this traffic free afternoon ended up waiting for some reason.
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