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In 1989 I was living in Alameda, California and commuting to San Francisco by bus. When the Loma Prieta earthquake shut down the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge a new ferry service became my commute. This photo is a dawn scene from the ferry in the Oakland Estuary after leaving Alameda, showing a tugboat and the massive cranes at the Port of Oakland. This is a scan from an old Kodachrome slide.
Most people, when thinking about how people get around here, say LA is the land of cars and freeways. And yes, there are plenty of both. Just in my small part of the urban jungle, I am surrounded by the 101, the 170, the 134 and the 5. (Prefixing freeway names with "the" is a Californian thing) Anyhow, there are other ways than freeways to get around. There's the light-rail/subway system, Metro. I use the Metro to travel to downtown LA and do photowalks. My photostream has a video, DTLA, which documents one such walk. Then there's the heavy rail commuter train system, MetroLink. The photo is the Burbank MetroLink station, which I pass over daily doing my own commute, walking (and usually with a camera). I suppose that makes it a liminal space, in a way. One of these days I'll have to catch the MetroLink and see where it goes and who rides. I'll bring my kit. :)
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Continuing my favourite theme, the water-borne citizens of Olhao going about their morning trip to work.
This is what the traffic looks like from our place, all the way to Sault Ste. Marie on the TransCanada Highway. That's the joy of living here instead of the big city.. not to mention the great scenery!
Got idea for this shot from somebody else on Flickr but I'm blanking on who it was. Thanks for the inspiration, whoever you were!
Notice how this Alaska Airlines flight from Fairbanks to Seattle takes a right turn just as it crosses over Tok, leaving the Alaska Highway as a flight path. When it gets to the coast in about 45 minutes or so, it will follow the coast to Seattle.
If it was going to the midwest, like Minneapolis or Chicago, it would have continued on the Alaska Highway path.
A commute is a journey you take from home to work and back again. You might enjoy your subway commute because it gives you lots of time to read...and to be lonely. Oops I mean alone!
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To comMUTE in screwedCITY doesn't mean to travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis – it actually means to travel huge distance within screwedCITY limits, (which is extremely huge) around places located somewhere in between one's home and place of work on a regular basis just for the sake of being surrounded by mute fellow citizens on low public transport fare. Most members of screwedCITY middle and upper class prefer this activity more than after-work parties, while many prestigious law firms take comMUTE as a cheap replacement for team-building.
This is classic screwedCITY – comMUTErs on McCullough's grandiose Turnstile Plateau waiting for a bus or train from there to somewhere and in-between...
Following on from this week's theme of shadows and silhouettes: people in NYC's Grand Central Terminal.
Just a regular morning of commuting, something that after 2 years of Home-Office I feel a bit odd. Sharing the space with strangers is getting more natural bit still odd.