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2856 Endeavour, Trainlink.
Morning commuter movements on a cracker of a morning; from the Southern Highlands to Sydney, under Bargo River Road Bridge, New South Wales, Australia.
Panniers hit my heel on this minivelo, but the Carradice BagMan + a good saddlebag solves that issue. (Yeah, I have to lock the seat to the bike -- it is San Francisco)
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This week 48 of my commute has been agited and marked by the second biggest politic event (or first depending where you are at) of 2016 : American President Trump. On the , Britain started to protest and millions signed a petition to forbid this man to enter in the U.K. After the brexit I found this quite ironic and a bit scary...
I sometimes feel bad calling it a commute, seeing as how this it the view and it's twelve minutes door to door. Or I can ride my bike.
Commute to work on the subway
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I don't quite know what happened with the windows of this train. This was pan shot trying to match the motion of a passing train. Possibly some artefact of the electronic front curtain shutter? The effect lent itself to the abstract nature of this shot so it didn't bother me. I just don't quite know what caused it. If you have an idea, let me know in the comments!
Turns out the simplest explanation was the correct one. Not an artefact of any kind, there simply are windows at two different heights on this particular commuter train. How embarrassing!
Thousands (perhaps millions) of people commute to work daily by commuter trains. This is both good and bad.
A train full of passengers uses less energy than the equivalent number of passenger cars (at typical passenger car occupancy). On the other hand, any transportation facility between outlying lower density residential communities and high density employment areas encourages living longer distances from employment and creates increased average commuting distances. The result is expanding urban sprawl.
The challenge is to find the correct balance. It is difficult, but this is what makes it very interesting.
Rail at the St. Catharines, Ontario VIA Rail station.
I saw this public art installation near the Gerkin in London and it spoke to me about two things.
First was the 'daily commute' we do most days in every city.
Second was simply 'changing jobs'.
What does it speak to you of?
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