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Uptown Houston's wildly successful real estate maturation could not have happened were it not for the unintentional benefits of the city's first beltway, I-610. As Joel Warner Barna writes in Cite, "the West Loop is not electrical path but Brownian Motion", and as such the section from Highway 59 to I-10 has spent nearly its entire lifespan a victim of its own success; utterly necessary, unavoidable, and exceedingly beyond capacity. Several decades of acrimonious negotiations have failed to the surprise of no one to produce a solution to the traffic this critical Houston highway suffers, and so it persists, a trial by patience and wits, for residents and visitors alike.
The Airport Express links central Beijing to Terminal 3 within just 16 minutes, and Terminal 2 from Dongzhimen, central Beijing is no more than 25 minutes away. The distance between Dongzhimen and Beijing Airport is 23 km by car. It presently costs RMB 16 for airport express. There are 4 stops along the express rail link: Terminal 3, Terminal 2, Sanyuanqiao and Dongzhimen. Dongzhimen will be the final city terminus. The Infrastructure Powers That Be, fully recognizing the current transport mélange at Dongzhimen, are putting the touching pieces to the Dongzhimen Transport Hub. The Airport Express will come into the hub on Basement Level 4, with Lines 2 and 13 a few floors above. You’ll actually be able to follow the signs and complete the interchange without ever seeing a ray of light (sun or moon). After the Games, you’ll even be able to check in your bags from Dongzhimen.
Rooting : Infrastructure
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Alternating between gravitating around an abyss and discovering the proliferation of roots on a fractured sidewalk and a heaving pavement, Rooting : Infrastructure invites the viewer to delve into intertwined natural and urban elements that are turned inside out and upside down. The work follows an artist residency and an exhibition that François Quévillon made in Mexico City at the end of 2019 for Connecting the Dots.
On the weekend of July 24-26, crews demolished and replaced it with new track around the curve at Sedgwick and also near Division/the Church Curve on the Brown Line's Ravenswood-Loop Connector.
Crews are now replacing worn rail ties and track components along the stretch of elevated track between the Armitage and Merchandise stations. This portion of project work will help eliminate slow zones and create a smoother, more reliable ride for the more than 40,000 customers who ride Purple and Brown line trains to and from the Loop each weekday.
Here are some pics we took.
Learn more about the Ravenswood Connector Rehabilitation Project at transitchicago.com/ravenswoodconnector
I keep on thinking about more or less meaningful space/spaces in cities/villages, and in in particular about the unavoidability of rather meaning-void places in cities that need to house people, cars, business, and that do so without a long tradition to fall back upon.
The rear end of the Coatbridge is passing over Channelsea Junctions, the middle past Carpenters Road North Junction and the front end is approaching Stratford Central Junction, illustrating the tangle of railway lines in Stratford despite the loss of large chunks of infrastructure to shopping centres and Olympic Parks!
View to SE of Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, Transamerica Pyramid, Presidio, Sutro Tower, San Francisco Bay, from Marin Headlands
Lantau Island, based on the old local name of Lantau Peak, is the largest island in Hong Kong, located at the mouth of the Pearl River. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands District of Hong Kong.
Originally the site of fishing villages, the island has been developed in recent years with the construction of Tung Chung New Town on its north-western coast and the completion of several major infrastructure projects, including Lantau Link (1997), Hong Kong International Airport (1998), Hong Kong Disneyland (2005) and Ngong Ping 360 (2006).
With a land mass of 147.16 square kilometres (56.82 sq mi), it is the largest island in Hong Kong, almost twice the size of Hong Kong Island.
Lantau Island primarily consists of mountainous terrain. Lantau Peak (934 m) is the highest point of the island. It is the second highest in Hong Kong, after Tai Mo Shan, and is almost twice the height of Victoria Peak. Other mountains include Sunset Peak (869 m), Lin Fa Shan (766 m), Nei Lak Shan (751 m) and Yi Tung Shan (747 m).
Lantau Island is often referred to as "the lungs of Hong Kong", because of its abundance of indigenous forest and relative scarcity of high-rise residential developments which characterise Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.
Lantau Island has a relatively low population density, with a population of 45,000, compared to 1.4 million on Hong Kong Island.Settlements are scattered throughout the island and each has its own distinctive characteristics. The completion of the Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok in 1998 has led to economic development in north-western Lantau; the once quiet village of Tung Chung became a new town and is now home to over 25,000 people located in 30 to 50 storey high-rise housing estates and condominiums located near the airport.
Early human artifacts have been discovered on the island. These artifacts include rock carvings at Shek Pik which are thought to date back to the Bronze Age, and a stone circle at Fan Lau which is probably from the Neolithic Age. Both sites are located on the southwestern coast of the island.
Like Cheung Chau, Lantau was once the base for pirates and smugglers, and was one of the bases of Cheung Po Tsai in the 19th century. Silver was also mined at Mui Wo until the 19th century.
Whilst on Lantau I took the Cable car from Tung Chung to Ngong Ping. The Bus to Tai O and looked at the big Buddha.
The Ngong Ping Plateau features the Po Lin Monastery and its vegetarian restaurant, as well as the 26 m high bronze Tian Tan Buddha (or "Giant Buddha") statue, once the world's largest seated outdoor bronze Buddha statue. Walkers can ascend from Tung Chung to the monastery in two hours. Visitors can also take a 25 minute ride on a Ngong Ping 360 from Tung Chung to the Ngong Ping Plateau. Ngong Ping 360 is a tourism experience which combines a 5.7 km cable car journey with a cultural themed village and easy access to the Tian Tan Buddha Statue.
Tai O is a fishing town located in the northwest of Lantau Island which is more than three centuries old. Tourists visit Tai O for its several hundred stilt houses (pang uk), though many of those houses were damaged in a fire in July 2000. Tai O retains most of its historical setting such as waterways, stilt houses and fishing boats and it is famous for its fishing village scenery. Traditional Chinese food like salted fish and locally produced shrimp paste can be found there.
Over 50% of Lantau consists of national parks, including a large number of well-marked trails. The best known of these is the 70 kilometre, 12 section Lantau Trailcomposed of beauty of natural stone steps and the dense woodland along a 3-kilometer stretch.Section 11 of the Lantau Trail starts just across the Tung Chung Road, which is not far from Ngong Ping 360.
Chinese white dolphins, often called pink dolphins, can be seen off the coast of Lantau.
The Ngong Ping 360, a gondola lift, is located on Lantau and is operated by the MTR. Opened in mid-September 2006, this provides a 5.7 km 20 minute gondola cableway journey between Tung Chung and Ngong Ping.
I was lucky enough to get a glass floored cabin known as the Crystal Cabin.
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Patrick Steptoe is a multi-faceted artist from Great Britain. He is a professional fashion designer but also makes illustrations, creates product designs and teaches at his very own academy for design. The figures of his sculpture resemble a mix of mice, rats, guinea pigs and humans. Just like these comical mice-man happily frolic in their three holes and alleys while enjoying themselves, humans should protect the environment as well as nature instead of destroying it. We should learn to strongly cooperate with nature in the future.
Source: Sandsation 2009
New crossovers installed at Bourne End during the upgrading of the West Coast Main Line. August 2003.
Much of the steel truss of the SR 508 South Fork Newaukum River Bridge is showing its age. Built in 1930, it's at the end of its usable life. WSDOT has weight restricted the bridge to order to reduce the stress on the steel truss, but heavy loads continue to cross which accelerates deterioration. A temporary Bailey bridge over the existing span will carry a single lane of traffic until the completion of a replacement structure in 2018. www.wsdot.wa.gov/News/2015/01/07_508bridgeclosures.htm
Railway lines still run through much of the exclusion zone, and they are by no means all abandoned. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether anything still runs down these tracks, and for what reason if so!
The Zuidas is a large rapidly developing business district in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Zuidas is also known as the 'Financial Mile'. It lies between the rivers Amstel and Schinkel along the ringway A10. The greatest influences for the development of the Zuidas are La Défense in Paris and Canary Wharf in London. In size it can best be compared with the Noordruimte/Espace Nord in Brussels.
In the future the railway station, Amsterdam Zuid, in the centre of this area will become the second main station of Amsterdam. It is expected to be 5th busiest passenger station in the Netherlands, with connections to Schiphol Airport, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, and Paris by high-speed rail, the Thalys. It will also connect to the German high-speed network, the ICE, via Utrecht and Arnhem.
The journey from the Zuidas to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol takes approximately 8 minutes. Future development could include an underground line directly to the airport. Another high-speed link has been proposed by a consortium of companies between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam Zuid and the city of Almere.
The Zuidas already has good underground connections to other business areas with the Circle Line. After the completion of the North South line, the Zuidas will have an even better connection to the city centre. The city council is not only investigating expanding the underground network to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol but also upgrading the hybrid metro/light rail line that stops at Amsterdam Zuid.
Large multinationals such as ING Group, ABN-Amro, and Akzo Nobel already have their headquarters in this new area. The World Trade Center Amsterdam has recently been renovated and expanded. The Duisenberg school of finance [1]
A large infrastructural axis (the Ring-A10) might be tunnelled, transforming the entire area. This would add an estimated €2 billion to the cost of the plan.
Under the San Francisco - Oakland Bay bridge(s). Looking west towards Yerba Buena Island at the new tower and the cables being built in place.
View large to see the faint crescent moon.
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Speciaal op verzoek van Gerard, bijna dezelfde foto maar dan nu met de rijdende randstadrail erop.
Kruispunt tussen Tram en Randstadrail genomen vanaf tramhalte Ternoot. Ooit de duurste tramhalte van Nederland. Misschien nog wel
Tijdens een zonnige maar koude stadswandeling hebben Akbar en ik, Krabami en Jeronimo kennis laten maken met het Den Haag van de moderne architectuur.
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The EL bridge was a backwater compared to the amout of rail traffic that used NU bridge (west coast main line) but it did see extra traffic from Yorkshire to Blackpool and from Scotland to Blackpool,these trains running through Preston station twice in order to get on the Blackpool line with out a run round, within about twenty minutes they would leave Preston over the EL bridge and return over NU bridge having gone via Todd Lane jct Lostock Hall jct and Farington Curve jct then back to Preston via the main line.The line from Preston to Bamber Bridge closed to passengers at the end of April 1972 after that Colne and Ormskirk services went via Farington Curve jct.
The view westward down the Oakland Estuary toward San Francisco Bay.
Downtown Oakland can be seen in the upper right of the image with San Francisco in the upper left. In the foreground is the Fruitvale Ave. Bridge, the no longer used vertical lift railroad bridge, with the green Park St. bridge downstream.
Taken by a camera lofted by a kite.
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