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Vue d'ensemble de la gare de Lourdes. A gauche, la BB 9326 tractant un Ter Toulouse > Pau. A droite, train de pèlerinage Lourdes > Chalons en Champagne lors de sa mise en place sur la voie A (voie où a lieu le vrai départ) après avoir chargé les pèlerins sur les voies des malades (quai réhaussé). Photo prise le 24/04/2013 à 19:40
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Beautiful area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal very well known as hassan square/civic centre. Deep in the photo flood lights on National Cricket Stadium of Karachi are visible while in upper-middle-left side, half bit of exhibition centre (EXPOCENTRE) is visible.
Weathering steel pylons replaced the previous aged timber pylons and all the insulators have been replaced.
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May 29, 2016
It feels like we're under the belly of a giant urban centipede.
Driving north on Route 1, Just leaving the city of Boston via the Tobin Bridge. We are on the lower deck, and the traffic is non-existent. Nice travels on a Holiday Weekend, Sunday morning! And it's not SNOW you're seeing, it's dead bugs on the windshield. Ahhh Summer.
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Cape Ann - USA
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The maze of expressway and ramps that transport traffic in and around Montreal, this from Ville St. Pierre.
LNER 4-6-2 A3 4472 Flying Scotsman passes Chinley station on 15-6-80.
It has changed somewhat now.
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Infrastructure projects in the Turcot area of Montreal have made it necessary for CN to move their main line a bit further north near the de Courcelle crossing in St-Henri. This view is looking west, the tracks used to be further to the left.
Here is an old picture of the Brent Spence Bridge carrying Interstates 71 and 75 over the Ohio River, which I took from the Covington side three years ago. The Brent Spence Bridge was 54 years old when I took this picture. It turned 57 this year, when a couple of semi-truck drivers tried to blow it up. The bridge is currently closed for repairs a bunch of optimistic Kentucky engineers say will take a month, though I don't know whether I buy that. Northern Kentuckians have been complaining loudly about the ricketiness of this bridge for well over a decade, and I can't imagine that melting part of it did anything to help its structural integrity. Northern Kentuckians want the state or the federal government to build them a new bridge. They're not going to get it.
This leaves me with a sensation I call "haddenfreude." I won't explain the etymology, but I define it as a feeling of pleasure derived by a former Western Kentuckian living in Illinois from watching the anti-government Northern Kentuckians' decades of refusal to pay for anything bite them in the ass.
Here's the background. The Brent Spence Bridge was built in 1963 to accommodate 85,000 vehicles per day, or just a little more than half the 152,000 vehicles that crossed the bridge every day in 2019. The bridge is well past its projected life expectancy even without all the extra traffic, and it was crumbling even before the wreck. Seriously, concrete was falling on peoples' cars. In a functional world, this would prompt a government to build a new bridge. But we don't live in a functional world, and the Cincinnati area is one of the least functional parts of it.
Some people would expect that since this bridge carries an Interstate highway, which is a federal government road, the Feds would be the people responsible for building a new bridge, but that's not how that works. The initial cost to build the interstate highway system was mostly paid by the Federal government using money from a new gas tax, with each state kicking in about 10% of the construction costs for the highways within its borders. But once the roads were built, maintenance became a state and local responsibility. The Feds often kick in a lot of money through grants and funding intiatives, but though the current president has spent his entire term putting together an infrastructure spending proposal which is perpetually two weeks from release, there hasn't been a federal infrastructure spending bill for years because nobody wants to pay for anything. Absent a federal bill, the cost of a new interstate highway bridge over a river becomes the responsibility of the states involved. In this case, since Kentucky owns the Ohio River up to the high-water line on the northern bank, the responsibility for a new Cincinnati bridge falls mostly on Kentucky. And the guys down in Frankfort have never really liked to acknowledge the existence of Northern Kentucky.
And Northern Kentuckians don't really help this much, because this is the most anti-tax, anti-government, anti-everything, freeloader corner of an extremely anti-tax state. Politically, Kentucky can swing purple sometimes, but Northern Kentucky is very firmly entrenched Trump country. They begrudge the state every cent it asks to pay for roads or schools or police or fire departments or just civilization in general. Anything. It doesn't matter. These people aren't paying. They shouldn't have to pay. If government can't afford it, then they don't need it.
Except for their bridge, I guess.
Now, as you may recall if you've been coming around here for a long while, Louisville recently built a couple of bridges and a tunnel at a cost of $2.5 billion. Louisville is home to Mitch McConnell, the most powerful senator to come out of Kentucky since Henry Clay, but even Mitch was only able to get the Feds to kick in half the project's cost. The rest fell to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which decided to fund its half of the project by charging everybody who crossed the new Interstate 65 bridge a $2 toll.
Would Northern Kentucky people be willing to pay a $2 toll to cross an all-new Brent Spence Bridge? The notion is laughable. I can hear the outcry now.
Here's my take on this thing.
The Brent Spence Bridge is one of four bridges carrying interstate highways across the Ohio RIver at Cincinnati. The Interstate 275 loop crosses the river over two bridges, one 20 miles downstream and one 8 miles upstream. And the Interstate 471 spur, which connects to I-275 not far from where Robin's parents live, crosses the river and connects to I-71 only a mile upstream of the Brent Spence. By road, this takes a person only 7 miles out of their way. So there are other paths an interstate highway can take. If it wants, the Feds could easily switch the signs and re-route 71 and 75 over one of those other bridges. New signage might cost 10 or 20 grand. The nation doesn't need the Brent Spence. Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky don't really need the Brent Spence. If they want a new Brent Spence, then they're going to have to pay for it.
The Shard in Central London is currently the highest building in Western Europe. Stunning, Vibrant city too :-)
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Processed and scanned at Nation Photo, Paris.
May 2016.
In the Westfjords they sure looove their road tunnels, and I don't blame them. Saves one a whole lot of scary mountain roads.
We returned to the Cabana to explore the basement, warehouse and some of the finer points of the rooms and roof.
The Basement was pitch black, wet and breezy. The Warehouse was less breezy and wet but about as dark. All things considered, it was a good mix of moisture, light and breeze...
The Leer Tower. Formerly known as the Cabana and before that, the Thomas Jefferson Hotel.
Opened to the public in 1929, it has been abandoned since 1982.
The Leer Tower features a moorage mast which was designed to tie down zeppelins and balloons at the time of its completion.
Twenty floors of fun, ballrooms, flooded basements, rooftop views, executive suites, offices, and broken televisions.