I was in Dresden over the bank holiday weekend, for the express purpose of visiting the Dresden Danglebahn, sorry, Schwebebahn.
Schwebebahn are suspension railway, of which there are a few in Germany. There is the more famous Wuppertal Schwebebahn, which I visited in 2023 and there is the Dresden Schwebebahn, which is, in some ways, more interesting, being a suspension funicular railway (i.e. there are two lines with the carriage ascending being raised by the weight of the carriage descending).
One aspect of the system caught my eye, more on the basis of ‘that would never work in Ireland’. Shortly after leaving the lower station, the line crosses over a road. With no warning signs or gates, the carriage crosses this road at a height that would enable an accident in the form of a large road vehicle running into it.
Were such a system in use in Ireland, I could see it being closed regularly due to vehicular strikes.