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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!!!
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)
The island of Manhattan is a bustling place that is connected by over 20 bridges and tunnels. Among them is the George Washington Bridge connecting the neighbourhood of Washington Heights to the New Jersey neighbourhood of Fort Lee.
VWS6930 Copyright © VW Selburn 2016: It was always a surprise leaving a tunnel. One never knew what was on the other side! With this view I just thought "Keep them coming!" I loved the bridges and tunnels on the Italian Riviera between Diano Marina and Monaco.
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
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, coterminous with Kings County, located in the U.S. state of New York. It is the most populous county in the state, the second-most densely populated county in the United States, and New York City's most populous borough, with an estimated 2,648,403 residents in 2020. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it shares a land border with the borough of Queens at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River, and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects it with Staten Island.
With a land area of 70.82 square miles (183.4 km2) and water area of 26 square miles (67 km2), Kings County is New York state's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area, though it is the second-largest among the city's five boroughs in terms of area and largest in terms of population. If each borough were ranked as a city, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous in the U.S., after Los Angeles and Chicago.
Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city (and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution) until January 1, 1898, when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s, according to the new Municipal Charter of "Greater New York", Brooklyn was consolidated with the other cities, boroughs, and counties to form the modern City of New York, surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs. The borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves. Brooklyn's official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght, which translates from early modern Dutch as "Unity makes strength".
In the first decades of the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as an avant-garde destination for hipsters, with concomitant gentrification, dramatic house price increases and a decrease in housing affordability. Since the 2010s, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship, high technology startup firms, postmodern art and design.
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Bridge and Tunnel @ The Windmill, London.
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Where the ramps merge at Pittsburgh's Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel, a homeless man braves the traffic.
Millenium Bridge lit up :)
I've decided to put this into 7DOS for the bridges and tunnels week. A bunch of us went to see our friends Aaron and Sarah in Newcastle for new year and I really wanted to catch the bridge lit up so I hung around just about long enough to do it :)
Time's Up Environmental Organization and Visual Resistance helped start memorializing with stencils and ghost bikes. This, in turn, put pressure on the city to redesign a lot of the streets, especially around bridges and tunnels which were especially dangerous. This campaign spread nationally.
Lord Meath's Lodge
The Lodge’s history is strongly associated with the construction of the rail line South from Bray by the Dublin Wicklow & Wexford Railway Co. which began in 1850 and opened in 1856. Originally an inland route was planned across the Glen of the Downs but an objection from Lord Meath of Kilruddery estate scuppered plans because he declared that the railway would divide his estate in two. So the difficult Bray Head section was the only alternative. It involved several bridges and tunnels which had to be bored through the rock and the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel was in involved in this.
The cliff path was constructed during construction to allow equipment and construction workers to be facilitated. After the railway opened the public were allowed to use the cliff path but again Kilruddery estate intervened and Lord Meath the 11th Earl William Brabazon (1803-1887) deemed that the path crossed the estate land and so a lodge was built as a toll house and a gate installed across the pathway to which a toll of one penny was charged to anybody wanting to continue on to Greystones. It was manned by an individual whose sole task was to collect the tolls. This levy was active Saturday to Thursday only as on Fridays the gate was locked so that the Brabazon family could use the cliff path for their own leisure activities.
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We drove along the magnicient Canal du Midi for a while, unbelievable what they had to dig and bridge and tunnel to get from Atlantic to Mediterranean. This picture and the following one is in Capestang, half an hour west of Bezier.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
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
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
Interagency vehicle interdiction operation at the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
NYSP and NYPD.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the U.S. state of New York, serving 12 counties in southeastern New York, along with 2 counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, carrying over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide, and over 800,000 vehicles on its nine toll bridges and tunnels per weekday.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
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
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
Views from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel during the remnants of Tropical Storm Karen. (October 2013)
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
On Saturday, July 20, 2024 MTA Bridges and Tunnels and Construction & Development tested the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel flood doors overnight, in preparation for potential hurricanes or tropical storms.
Time's Up Environmental Organization and Visual Resistance helped start memorializing with stencils and ghost bikes. This, in turn, put pressure on the city to redesign a lot of the streets, especially around bridges and tunnels which were especially dangerous. This campaign spread nationally.
As I documented old, abandoned stretches of the HCRH, I looked in particular for the remnants of the beautiful bridges and tunnels that made the HCRH so unique. This is one of the back-filled Mosier Twin Tunnels that has since been restored. This is as it looked in 1994. Unfortunately, I was never able to get back to here (or on the other side of the tunnels) before ODOT closed off the area, in preparation to restore the highway.
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This is the view towards the mainland from the summit of Dunlawton Bridge, the southernmost bridge of the Daytona Beach area.
Through 25 joint enforcement operations focusing on ghost plates and persistent toll violators on bridges and in tunnels throughout New York City, MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers, NYPD officers and local law enforcement partners have impounded 1,540 vehicles, made 339 arrests and issued 12,007 summonses. These drivers owe more than $12.5 million in unpaid tolls and fees.
Credit: MTA