Story with video. This is definitely cool. I'd go back to Germany just to ride it. This is how German ingenuity and engineering is fascinating to me even though I don't have an understanding of engineering at all. I saw a great many things when I lived there that were so interesting from an engineering standpoint, from the architecture of buildings, castles and bridges to how they planned everything they did specifically. It helped me make sense of my paternal grandfather's mind and how it worked being as that side of my family is German.

 

Is it a boat? Or is it a bus? Looking at the new Hafencity Riverbus in Hamburg, it is actually a bit of both. This makes the amphibious vehicle ideally suited to the port city on the Elbe, since the vast majority of its tourist attractions are located either on or adjacent to the water.


 

“I already had the idea for this kind of project 18 years ago,” explains Franken, a shipping merchant and self-confessed bus enthusiast. “Back then, I had seen a similar attraction in Singapore and it was immediately obvious to me that we definitely had to bring something like this to Hamburg.”


 

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