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On 14th Oct 2018, 10000 Hong Kong protesters hold a rally from Causeway Bay to the Central Office, to protest the government 's plan to spend probably 1 trillion Hong Kong dollars to build artificial islands and accompanying bridges and tunnels in the East of Lantau Island.
The former "East Lantau Metropolis project" proposed to reclaim 1000 hectares , has been replaced this week by an even more ambitious project of "Lantau Tomorrow Vision " of reclaiming 1700 hectares to house 1.1million people by the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, preempting the awaited public consultation report by the Task Force on Land Supply.
The protestors worried the project has not considered the risks under extreme weather, will irreversibly damage the environment, burn up the whole fiscal reserve, and deprive the public of the funding for other more important fields like medical , education, and retirement scheme.
Moreover the project , requiring 2 to 3 decades to complete , cannot cater for the immediate housing needs of the general public, as compared to other source of land supply such as the Fanling Golf Course , brownfield sites and buy back farmland from private estate developers for public housing.
大约一萬名市民於十月十四日參與由銅鑼灣至政總的遊行 ,抗議政府計劃用一萬億元填海及興建東大嶼人工島方案。
示威者認為政府的明日大嶼計劃填海1700公頃及其他的橋樑或隧道, 將會對環境造成不可挽回的影響, 亦未有考慮到人工島能否應付極端的天氣, 財政上會用盡香港的儲備, 亦令到沒有足夠財政資源用於醫療、教育及全民退休保障等。
示威者亦不滿政府亦未有等待土地供應小組的咨詢結果便公佈填海作為主要選項。但填海需時20至30年才提供到1.1百萬人的住宅, 相反其他土地供應選項如收回粉嶺哥爾夫球場、粽地、及用官地收回條例收回地產發展商的農地作公營房屋卻能夠比較快提供到房屋。
March 12, 2024 — New York, NY — Governor Kathy Hochul, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Police Department Commissioner Edward A. Caban, New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda, and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chair and CEO Janno Lieber today announced the launch of a multi-agency city-state task force dedicated to identifying and removing so-called “ghost cars” — cars that are virtually untraceable by traffic cameras and toll readers because of their forged or altered license plates — from New York City streets. Yesterday, in an overwhelmingly successful inter-agency operation involving the NYPD, the New York City Sheriff’s Office, MTA bridge and tunnel officers, the New York State Police, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, authorities impounded 73 cars, issued 282 summonses, and arrested eight individuals. (Susan Watts/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul)
Date: 22.03.2011
Location: Amsterdam Noord, Mosveld
Wall: 650 m2 of the complete bridge and tunnel walls
All artists of the Urban Art Exchange SH(OUT)!!! painted together the complete bridge and tunnel walls at the Mosplein in Amsterdam Noord. A common color scheme for the styels and the background was chosen by the organisation crew. During a preparation meeting the wall space was divided amon the artists in order to get a good composition of stylewriters and characters.
URBAN ART MURALISM - ARTIST EXCHANGE in AMSTERDAM
A group of 36 Urban Artists coming from six European countries – Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France and Austria – took part in the European Art Exchange Project “SH(OUT)!!!” from 18.03.11 to 27.03.11 in Amsterdam.
The main activities included several mural paintings in the city of Amsterdam, an exhibition in the Dokhuis Gallery as well as a common art workshop with local young people.
Nowadays Urban Art has worldwide acceptance as a young art form. Urban Artists form and transform public spaces and present their work, free of charge, throughout the cities. The event gives respect and pays tribute to art from the streets and makes this art form more accessible to a broader audience through various live painting activities in the city, two innovative group exhibitions and workshops.
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Trike tour of Sydney for Justin's 11th Birthday.
Easyriders from the rocks Markets, www.easyrider.com.au/
$65 for a guy to take you on the back of a trike around Sydney for half hour. Absolutely recommend it as a fun way to see Sydney!
Around the rocks, Harbour Bridge, north Sydney, The bridge and tunnels back to the rocks.
I think the boys (Justin and cousin Joshua) liked it, as did Janelle and I!!!
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Le pont du Port à l'Anglais est un pont suspendu avec haubans entre Alfortville et Vitry-sur-Seine. Il a été construit entre 1912 et 1927.
Sa portée principale est de 124 m pour une longueur totale de 230 m. le tablier est en acier et les pylônes en béton.
Ce pont suspendu est situé à proximité d'un barrage et deux écluses situées sur les communes d'Alfortville et de Vitry-sur-Seine. Son nom vient de la famille Langlois, premiers propriétaires des terres. Ses trottoirs, qui respectent l'esprit traditionnel des sites éclusiers, permettent de profiter d'une vue panoramique et d'observer les péniches qui entrent et sortent de l'écluse.
Diaries of Gerard "G.I." Sawyer from April 1968 - "G.I." Sawyer,designed many of Washington's landmark bridges and tunnels as the District's chief bridge engineer, including the Dupont Circle tunnel and the never-built three-sisters bridge.
2018 marks 50 years since Washington, D.C., and many other urban areas around the nation exploded in civil disturbances in the wake of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But as noted at the 2017 D.C. History Conference, D.C. in 1968 was about much more than the civil disturbances.
The workshop serves as an introduction to resources relating to many aspects of life in Washington, D.C. in 1968, including local activist movements, experiments in community-advised policing, and developments in art and architecture.
The kids played with a John Deere remote tractor that we picked up at the thrift store for a good hour. They built ramps & tunnels out of books, and drove him through them. Also, using themselves as bridges and tunnels. Simple pleasures.
On 14th Oct 2018, 10000 Hong Kong protesters hold a rally from Causeway Bay to the Central Office, to protest the government 's plan to spend probably 1 trillion Hong Kong dollars to build artificial islands and accompanying bridges and tunnels in the East of Lantau Island.
The former "East Lantau Metropolis project" proposed to reclaim 1000 hectares , has been replaced this week by an even more ambitious project of "Lantau Tomorrow Vision " of reclaiming 1700 hectares to house 1.1million people by the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, preempting the awaited public consultation report by the Task Force on Land Supply.
The protestors worried the project has not considered the risks under extreme weather, will irreversibly damage the environment, burn up the whole fiscal reserve, and deprive the public of the funding for other more important fields like medical , education, and retirement scheme.
Moreover the project , requiring 2 to 3 decades to complete , cannot cater for the immediate housing needs of the general public, as compared to other source of land supply such as the Fanling Golf Course , brownfield sites and buy back farmland from private estate developers for public housing.
大约一萬名市民於十月十四日參與由銅鑼灣至政總的遊行 ,抗議政府計劃用一萬億元填海及興建東大嶼人工島方案。
示威者認為政府的明日大嶼計劃填海1700公頃及其他的橋樑或隧道, 將會對環境造成不可挽回的影響, 亦未有考慮到人工島能否應付極端的天氣, 財政上會用盡香港的儲備, 亦令到沒有足夠財政資源用於醫療、教育及全民退休保障等。
示威者亦不滿政府亦未有等待土地供應小組的咨詢結果便公佈填海作為主要選項。但填海需時20至30年才提供到1.1百萬人的住宅, 相反其他土地供應選項如收回粉嶺哥爾夫球場、粽地、及用官地收回條例收回地產發展商的農地作公營房屋卻能夠比較快提供到房屋。
The FDNY, the largest municipal fire department in the United States, and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department, has approximately 11,080 uniformed officers and firefighters and over 3,300 uniformed EMTs and paramedics. It faces an extraordinarily varied challenge. In addition to responding to building types that range from wood-frame single family homes to high-rise structures, there are the many bridges and tunnels, large parks and wooded areas that can give rise to major brush fires, and one of the largest subway systems in the world. These challenges add yet another level of firefighting complexity and have led to the creation of the motto for FDNY firefighters of New York’s Bravest.
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Many bridges and tunnels on the journey down the steep escarpment to the coast. Built by the Italians during the colonial times. Amazing.
It’s not in the dictionary, but if it was, Go Ape would be described as a ‘high-wire forest adventure’.
That means a giant obstacle course up in the trees using ladders, walkways, bridges and tunnels made of wood, rope and super-strong wire, and top it all off with the country’s best zip lines.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel / Heading East / Rest Stop / Sea Gull Island Observation Area / Bridge Gap Tunnel / Large Shipping Channel Pass / Oil Tanker Approaches
VSI Sand Making Machine is a newly researched equipment, with international advanced level. VSI Sand Making Machine is widely applied in expressway and railway building, hydropower station construction, bridge and tunnel building, concrete batching plant, etc for crushing and gravel shaping. They are highly recommended when it comes to the shaping of gravels used in concrete aggregates, whose concrete strength is above C 60 or which required to be freeze proof and leak proof.
Features:
1. Advanced double-pump oil lubrication system guarantee shaft bearing lower temperature increase, longer life time, more reliable operation.
2. Main shaft is equipped with imported precision rolling bearing. It makes main shaft work stable, lengthen maintenance cycle, increases productivity.
3. Hydraulic lifting mechanism of upper cover can move away the cover easily, which saves man power during maintenance.
4. Over-vibration device is equipped. There will be alarm when vibration surpasses a stipulated figure. It will stop the machine, in order to protect it.
5. Special dust-proof design for main shaft bearing fully avoid dust entering bearing lubrication part, which make sure the machine work normally.
6. Special feed opening structure makes it possible that center feeding and ring feeding comes together, in order to meet requirement of different stones. In addition, this equipment can not only crush stone, but also iron.
7. Shape of material-through device is better designed, which improve the utilization ratio.
Working Principle
1. Center Feeding:
Raw material falls down into feed hopper, then enters impellor through central entrance hole. It is accelerated in high-speed impellor, then is thrown out at speed of 60-75m/s. When hitting impact plate, it is crushed. Final products come downwards though outlet.
Working Principle
1. Center Feeding:
Raw material falls down into feed hopper, then enters impellor through central entrance hole. It is accelerated in high-speed impellor, then is thrown out at speed of 60-75m/s. When hitting impact plate, it is crushed. Final products come downwards though outlet.
2. Ring Feeding:
Raw material falls down into feed hopper, then through ring, it is devided into two parts by material-dividing plate. One enters into impellor through the center of material-dividing plate. The other falls down from outside of material-dividing plate. Material, which is thrown out by impellor at speed of 60-75m/s, hits material coming down from outside of material-dividing plate. In this way, material is crushed.
Trike tour of Sydney for Justin's 11th Birthday.
Easyriders from the rocks Markets, www.easyrider.com.au/
$65 for a guy to take you on the back of a trike around Sydney for half hour. Absolutely recommend it as a fun way to see Sydney!
Around the rocks, Harbour Bridge, north Sydney, The bridge and tunnels back to the rocks.
I think the boys (Justin and cousin Joshua) liked it, as did Janelle and I!!!
It’s not in the dictionary, but if it was, Go Ape would be described as a ‘high-wire forest adventure’.
That means a giant obstacle course up in the trees using ladders, walkways, bridges and tunnels made of wood, rope and super-strong wire, and top it all off with the country’s best zip lines.
Today, a 120-mile road and tunnel network links Madeira's previously isolated mountain communities, cutting journeys around its steep volcanic contours from four hours to just one.
A footbridge over the Kennet and Avon Canal, dated 1800, designed by John Rennie, engineer, and manufactured by the Coalbrookdale factory at Ironbridge. MATERIALS: The structure is of cast iron, set on coped ashlar abutments. PLAN: The bridge is a single span measuring c.12m, with a width of c.6.5m, and is set on a pronounced skew of around 45 degrees. EXTERIOR: The bridge is formed from seven segmental arches with panelled intrados, and a cornice which forms the plinth to the balustrade above; the balustrade is formed from separate, vertical trellised panels which support the continuous handrail. At the vertex of the arch is a cast iron date plaque inscribed 'ERECTED / ANNO / 1800'. HISTORY: Sydney Gardens were laid out as commercial pleasure grounds between 1792 and 1794; the initial design was by the architect Thomas Baldwin, who, after he went bankrupt, was replaced by Charles Harcourt Masters in 1794. They were opened on 11 May 1795 as Sydney Gardens Vauxhall, and rapidly became a popular place of entertainment, hosting public breakfasts, promenades and galas. The main building was the Sydney Tavern (now the Holburne of Menstrie Museum), which stood at the western end of the central walk, and housed tea and card rooms, a ballroom, coffee room and a public house. In 1799, a section of the Kennet and Avon Canal (authorised 1794; opened 1810) was cut through the gardens, with the addition of decorative bridges and tunnels, which added to the picturesque appeal of the pleasure grounds; these were insisted upon by the proprietors of Sydney Gardens as part of their agreement with the canal company, which was entered into in 1795. The canal company paid £2,100 and the cost of providing the bridges and tunnels as compensation for the intrusion into the gardens. During the early C19, additional features and structures were introduced, adding variety and surprise in accordance with landscape design principles of the period. From c.1839, a section of the Great Western Railway was constructed, cutting through the gardens. Later in the C19, further ornamental structures were introduced, but these were largely cleared away after World War Two. In 1891, when the original 99-year lease of the Gardens expired, the entire site, including the Tavern, by then in use as a college, was sold, with the intention of replacing the former Tavern with a large hotel, and remodelling the grounds. The plan was abandoned and in 1908, the site was purchased by Bath City Council; the gardens were opened to the public as a municipal park in 1913, while the Tavern was remodelled by Sir Reginald Blomfield into the Holburne of Menstrie Museum. The gardens remain in use as a public park. This bridge, which continues the main axis through the park over the Kennet and Avon canal, was constructed in 1800 and remains largely unaltered since then. EH Listing
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The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge consists of a series of bridges and tunnels that connect Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai, three major cities on the Pearl River Delta in China.
Trike tour of Sydney for Justin's 11th Birthday.
Easyriders from the rocks Markets, www.easyrider.com.au/
$65 for a guy to take you on the back of a trike around Sydney for half hour. Absolutely recommend it as a fun way to see Sydney!
Around the rocks, Harbour Bridge, north Sydney, The bridge and tunnels back to the rocks.
I think the boys (Justin and cousin Joshua) liked it, as did Janelle and I!!!
On 14th Oct 2018, 10000 Hong Kong protesters hold a rally from Causeway Bay to the Central Office, to protest the government 's plan to spend probably 1 trillion Hong Kong dollars to build artificial islands and accompanying bridges and tunnels in the East of Lantau Island.
The former "East Lantau Metropolis project" proposed to reclaim 1000 hectares , has been replaced this week by an even more ambitious project of "Lantau Tomorrow Vision " of reclaiming 1700 hectares to house 1.1million people by the Chief Executive Carrie Lam, preempting the awaited public consultation report by the Task Force on Land Supply.
The protestors worried the project has not considered the risks under extreme weather, will irreversibly damage the environment, burn up the whole fiscal reserve, and deprive the public of the funding for other more important fields like medical , education, and retirement scheme.
Moreover the project , requiring 2 to 3 decades to complete , cannot cater for the immediate housing needs of the general public, as compared to other source of land supply such as the Fanling Golf Course , brownfield sites and buy back farmland from private estate developers for public housing.
大约一萬名市民於十月十四日參與由銅鑼灣至政總的遊行 ,抗議政府計劃用一萬億元填海及興建東大嶼人工島方案。
示威者認為政府的明日大嶼計劃填海1700公頃及其他的橋樑或隧道, 將會對環境造成不可挽回的影響, 亦未有考慮到人工島能否應付極端的天氣, 財政上會用盡香港的儲備, 亦令到沒有足夠財政資源用於醫療、教育及全民退休保障等。
示威者亦不滿政府亦未有等待土地供應小組的咨詢結果便公佈填海作為主要選項。但填海需時20至30年才提供到1.1百萬人的住宅, 相反其他土地供應選項如收回粉嶺哥爾夫球場、粽地、及用官地收回條例收回地產發展商的農地作公營房屋卻能夠比較快提供到房屋。
this was shot in the Lehigh Tunnel (or was it Lehigh Valley Tunnel) in Pennsylvania about an hour north-northwest of Philadelphia. It's a tunnel bored through a mountain, the first time my car was ever in such a tunnel. On my way down to the deep south (Maryland) I was in a couple underwater tunnels. I love big engineering like bridges and tunnels :)
Oh dear Lord, I actually acquired one! American Bank Note engravers master plate - #81538 - for the 50 cent Toll Scrip note for the New York City Tunnel Authority - the original operator of Queens Midtown Tunnel, as constructed and opened in 1940; and of which was acquired by the Triborough Bridge Authority in 1946, and requiring their name to be changed to the Triborough Bridge *and Tunnel* Authority.
There are four other plates (denominations) known to exist: 25 cent, 40 cent, 60 cent and 75 cent.
The original owner / gallery was asking $10,000 for the set for many years. I contacted them in 2019 with an offer of $2,500 ($500 per plate), but I never heard back.
About a two years after that, I found out the set was broken up and listed on eBay several months prior, and where I found that a few plates fetched way less than that of my offer.
I never saw the auctions so I couldn't even be competitive in bidding. I was to say the least, very disappointed.
Lapse forward to a few months ago, when the owner of the 50 cent plate emailed me (after finding my website on toll scrip of New York & New Jersey:
members.trainweb.com/bedt/toll/nytollscripandtokenspage3....
if I had ever seen a corresponding issued scrip for the plate, which I had not. Only one circulated 25 cent note is known to exist. He is a primarily a collector of engraving plates and banknotes of his country, but also collects other unique printing plates items which is how he ended up acquiring this. I said if he ever considered parting with the plate, give me a holler.
Last week, he did. Since he did not want to ship the plate from his country of residence, he carried the plate with him on a commercial flight to visit family in Florida, and then mailed it to me via UPS upon arrival. Four days later it has now been delivered into my hot little hands!
After ogling it for 30 minutes, and taking a cell phone shot of it; I went to work with some paper towel and rubbing alcohol, and it cleaned up nicely. I think it was coated with beeswax for storage by American Bank Note Company, and it has not been cleaned since, as photos from the auction show the same dirt, and some paper stuck to it. Some very minor pitting from age, but she really cleaned up nicely - almost to a mirror shine.
It will be sent shortly to George Cuhaj, who has at his disposal a intaglio press, where we will make proofs for me (and himself), and then I will recoat it with a preventative. I think I will have it mounted and framed with one of the printed proofs.
Here's the rub: no surviving notes are known so we do not know what color ink it was printed with! The 25 cent was printed dark purple. Was each denomination a different color, or the same - we won't know until a printed example or a printers proof surfaces.
Siderography:
To give a quick understanding of this plate: the toll scrip were not printed from this. This is the master. And engraver did his work on a piece of soft steel. When finished and approved, it went into an oven, and quenched hardening the plate.
Then a cylindrical piece of steel (soft) was rolled across the top of the master under very high pressure, making for a positive, this is called a transfer roll.
Then that "transfer roll" cylinder was hardened.
Then the hardened positive cylinder is rolled back and forth dozens of times under high pressure on a flat plate of soft steel. . This makes for a multiple impression negative printing plate.
This was then installed in a printing press, and then sheets of paper were printed from that, cut and used for currency, note, stock or what have you. Here is a great video of the process, which is called Siderography:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slwn2nDZNtE
In high quantity production, the negative printing plates would be sacrificial; and in the case of say US Banknotes, many dozens or hundreds of plates would be made from the transfer roll.
When the transfer roll was worn out, a new one would be made from the master.
If and when the master plate wore out, a new one needed to be engraved. Slight differences in the master plate allowed for differences in production.
On something like this toll scrip, one master and one transfer roll were in all likelihood, the only ones. with the plates destroyed after use, and the master and the transfer rolls going into company archives.
In the case of American Bank Note Co, they made postage stamps, banknotes, coupons, scrip, stock and bond certificates, even cigar bands; and other engraved printed items.
When they liquidated their archives in 2006, someone was smart enough to offer up for auction through Stacks Bowers; which is how this plate and others survived.
images: © 2024 ~ Philip M. Goldstein - nynjtollscrip.info
MTA Bridges and Tunnels, NYPD, NY State Police, Port Authority NYNJ Police, NYC Sheriff, NY State Department of Motor Vehicles Interagency Taskforce conduct enforcement operations on Throgs Neck Bridge, RFK Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Lincoln Tunnel on 4-18-24 and 4-19-24. Photo Credit: Ray Raimundi / MTA
or St. Pauli Elbe Tunnel (German: Alter Elbtunnel (coll.) or St. Pauli Elbtunnel (official name)) which opened in 1911, is a pedestrian and vehicle tunnel in Hamburg, Germany. The 426 m (1,398 ft) long tunnel was a technical sensation; 24 m (80 ft) beneath the surface, two tubes with 6 m (20 ft) diameter connect central Hamburg with the docks and shipyards on the south side of the river Elbe. This meant a big improvement for tens of thousands of workers in one of the busiest harbours in the world.
Four huge lifts on either side of the tunnel carried pedestrians, carriages and motor vehicles to the bottom. They are still in operation, though due to the limited capacity by today's standards, other bridges and tunnels have been built and taken over most of the traffic.
In 2008 approx 300.000 cars, 63.000 bicycles and 700.000 pedestrians used the tunnel. The tunnel is opened 24 hours for pedestrians and bicycles. For motorized vehicles opening times are currently Monday to Friday from 5.20 AM to 8.00 PM, on Saturdays from 5.20 AM to 4.00 PM.
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Old Elbe Tunnel or St. Pauli Elbe Tunnel (Alter Elbtunnel colloquially or St. Pauli Elbtunnel officially) which opened in 1911, is a pedestrian and vehicle tunnel in Hamburg, Germany. The 426 m long tunnel was a technical sensation; 24 m beneath the surface, two 6 m diameter tubes connect central Hamburg with the docks and shipyards on the south side of the river Elbe. This was a big improvement for tens of thousands of workers in one of the busiest harbors in the world.
Four large lifts on either side of the tunnel carry pedestrians and vehicles to the bottom. The two tunnels are both still in operation, though due to their limited capacity by today's standards, other bridges and tunnels have been built and taken over most of the traffic.
In 2008 approximately 300,000 cars, 63,000 bicycles, and 700,000 pedestrians used the tunnel. The tunnel is opened 24 hours for pedestrians and bicycles. For motorized vehicles, opening times are currently Monday to Friday from 5:20 AM to 8:00 PM and on Saturdays from 5:20 AM to 4:00 PM. Source: en.wikipedia.org