Across This New Divide
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@mystic_destiny: Thanks!
@blunder: Thank you! Here's more from me!
@SimCoug: Thanks!
@ROFLyoshi: Glad to be back on my side!
@Huston: Thank you! As far as I have time and will for playing, I'll be here or there CJing...
@Benedictx3: Thanks!
@spursrule14: Thank you!
@ggamgus: Thanks! I like to do it this way!
@Hazani Pratama: Yeah, I love how they add the final touch!
@Terring: Well, at least they're not Nazi communists... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzGdJNwj2Hk. It's dubbed in Spanish, but if you watch The Simpsons regularly, you'll have the Greek or English translation in your head.
@NMUSpidey: They're above your head!
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It was no news that population of the north and south sides had different political ideas. But these differences were so deep, so radically rooted on people's brains, that they sometimes said to each other on heated arguments "we'll put you behind a wall some day". Two different sights of the world were represented in a single city.
One day on the 20th century, it just happened overnight. A long barrier of barb wire was dividing the whole city any given Monday morning. They day after, the wires became fences. And the fences became double fences. The wall, not technically a wall, but called The Wall by the population, was installed above the rail tracks, which were eventually removed in order to form a 32-meters-wide Death Strip where, any trespassor had only one fate. Death.
Physical communications were cut, telephone lines were cut, all transport lines were cut.
The one and only checkpoint between the two city halves became the ironically named Union Station, where the now two separated commuter rail systems had a stop. Both station halls (the formerly called North and South halls) became improvised customs and detention zones, supervised 24/7 by military personnel. Bureaucracy in order to cross from one side to the other was so long and complex to do that you never know if you would come back sometime to your original city half.
More than a divided city, it became a dead city.
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This update has been inspired by Fox's update here [link], but also by Friedrichstrasse rail station in Berlin [link], which has a really interesting history behind it.
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