Say what you will about the brutalist architecture <insert commieblock joke here>, but the eastern block also had some pretty interesting bits of, well now retro, futurist design in their public works.
How did that work? Did he manually operate traffic lights or something?
He would frown at you if you swerved out of your lane.
I don’t know, but a lot of east bloc had a quite high surveillance. There were often a zero tolerance for drinking, speeding… and they had people oversee main roads.
But as I said, no idea what that dude is supposed to do!
Zero tolerance for drunk driving? Crazy that one didn’t have enough social inertia to stick around after the collapse. Then again, given the conditions in the 90s, maybe the chance to get home faster vs potentially die, taking random people with you looks like a win-win.
How the hell would he get up into that thing?
the booth is constructed around them and then raised into the air with a crane, and the support built below
Ladder or steep stairs on the back side of the pole. You can kind of see a handhold railing there.
Gotta imagine that ladder was covered in ice for much of the year.
In Soviet Russia, OSHA violates you
Russia is big, in the south it can easily reach +40 degrees in summer if not more. Can imagine they did not build in air-conditioning back in those days
Gotta imagine that ladder was covered in ice for much of the year.
Assuming this is in fact in Chernivtsi, as the post title says, it’s not too bad there. Mean temp falls below freezing for three months out of the year.
Still, probably not fun to climb when there is ice…
Ladder steps kinda thing I reckon.
This is strange and archaic, so I like it.
I would just sit up there making vroom noises all day.
