Planner, photos on Flickr

The station was designed by John B. Parkin & Associates and was built in 1966. It won a Massey Medal for architecture in 1967. In 2000, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada named the station as one of the top 500 buildings produced in Canada during the last millennium.

Ottawa’s trains once came into a large downtown Union Station a short distance from the Parliament buildings, but with the replacement of the railway tracks beside the Rideau Canal with the National Capital Commission’s Colonel By Drive scenic parkway, the former station has been converted into the Government Conference Centre.

Per a sign located inside the station: "The Ottawa Station was completed in 1966 as part of a plan for the relocation and consolidation of many railway lines built between 1854 and 1916. The new arrangement was based on the plans of the noted urban planner, Jacques Greber, and was constructed by the National Capital Commission. The Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific railway are owners and operators of the new installations." The station is protected under the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act since 1996. It is a glass and steel, International style railway station. The VIA Rail Station at Ottawa is one of the finest examples of the International style in Canadian architecture.

393♥ by Manuela Cobalt

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Planner dividers stacked by jadecat23

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Hand made dividers stacked

CL604 CHALLENGER N604EP ENGINEERS & PLANNERS GHANA by Malcolm Nason

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Saw this one at Luton in July so nice to get the pic at Shannon 19/9/15.

Social Housing Planning at its best. by Mike Cook 67

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I was going to my fitness session today in Welwyn Garden City and took the Panasonic G80 out so to practice and understand the Western Master V light meter of 1960’s vintage. There was no intention of uploading a picture from this session just practice only.

When editing these pictures on my old computer I was surprised how little I needed to do and the colour again surprised me like with the Ricoh GRiii while on holiday when using the old light meter.

The picture shows what can be done for social housing that looks good and a pleasant place to live. No doubt all these homes are privately owned now but once the lower paid people starting out their lives had a decent place to live.

Planner Ring by bztraining

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I sat at the kitchen table, staring blankly at my planner where...

Our Daily Challenge - Aug 20, 2021 - PART OF A CIRCLE

... was written, desperately trying to think of something to take a picture of.

(sigh)

Planner Dorks by Jodie Dee

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I have created planner dorks out of some of my students. We had a park day and I was curious who brought their planner with them :)

custom order camera case and planner by misseskwittys

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Don't you just love pink and green?? :-)

Journey Planner by P.

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London Bridge station.

Constipation Planner by HighHor$epower

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20T takes to the passing siding to run around a dead 120 train parked on the mainline at Dawson, IL.

All day long 120's carcass served to impede traffic flow as trains sat for an hour and half at either Iles and Harristown waiting for opposing traffic to pass. Then, once they were let loose, they had to negotiate the 25 mph gauntlet at Dawson as they ran into and back out of the passing siding. Movement Planner my butt. More like Constipation Planner.

24 hours later, as I posted this photo, 120 is still sitting dead at Dawson blocking the main road crossing. And the Class I's wonder why people are getting angry.

NS 8011 - ES44AC

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Old Route 36 - Dawson, Illinois

February 5, 2022

Planners Dream by Craig Crawford

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The Red Rd flats were a post war social experiment to move people from the slums to the sky when completed in 1966 they were the tallest in Europe,unfortunately it took over 45 years and many broken generations to realise the plan was flawed. Now in the process of demolition

WMPTE 711N, Railway, Wolverhampton, 1970 by The Wulfrun Way

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In the late 1950s, Wolverhampton Council proposed a controversial and costly project to build a ring road around the town, to divert ‘through traffic’ away from the town centre. As with most towns in Britain, the huge increase in private car ownership was becoming a headache for the town’s planners.

As part of the town’s future road planning, it was decided that the building of the ‘Ring Road’ would also force the abandonment of the town’s trolleybus system, as the council wanted ‘no trolleybuses or trolleybus infrastructure’ to encounter the new Ring Road! This commitment would become a huge finical burden on the local rate-payers, so budgetary restraints were made where possible. Construction of the Ring Road began in 1961, but took almost three decades to complete.

Between June 1963 and March 1967, Wolverhampton Corporation Transport purchased 146 new double-deck motorbuses to replace the post-war trolleybus fleet. The financial enormity of funding the conversion program impacted on the quality of the new motorbus purchases, with savings having to be made. From 1965 – 1967, the Transport Department’s budget constraints forced them to opt for cheaper bus bodies to be fitted to the locally built Guy Arab V motorbus chassis that the council were duty-bound to purchase. Strachan (Coachbuilders) Ltd of Hamble, Hampshire became the new bus body supplier, but these budget built bus bodies for the Guy Arabs would soon prove to be sub-standard, resulting in short service lives due to structural fatigue.

On the demise of the town's last trolleybuses in March 1967, came the news that twelve high-capacity single-deck buses had been ordered. In July 1967, the ‘Transport Department’ took delivery of six AEC Swifts (708-713) and six Daimler Roadliners (714-719), all having Strachan built dual-doored bodies. This may have been seen as an extravagant purchase in lieu of the tax payers money recently spent on the trolleybus replacement fleet?

The buses appeared very modern looking, with large windows and spacious high-roofed interiors, being very similar in design to London Transport’s Strachan bodied ‘Red Arrow’ buses that had been new to the capital in 1966. The intension from the outset was to trial the concept of ‘pay-on-entry’ buses, with passengers paying the driver on boarding the bus.

The new buses were initially put to work on the No1 Tettenhall service to gauge public reaction to 'pay-on-entry, and assessing operational issues. However, after a few weeks the experiment was ended and crew-operated double-deckers reinstated to the route. Against all expectations, the costly experiment hadn’t been a success, having been met with mixed reactions from the travelling public who were not used to paying the driver on boarding, much preferring bus conductors to take their fares. It was also found that the ‘Cummins V6’ engined Daimler ‘Roadliners’ in particular, didn’t like the intense ‘stop and start’ work on this short urban service. Therefore a decision was made to redeploy these buses to rural services, such as the lengthy No17 and No31 routes to Bridgnorth in Shropshire. In this setting, the stops were fewer and the average speeds were higher, but as a cost saving measure the buses continued to be used as ‘pay-on-entry’ vehicles.

In October 1969, 708-719, along with the rest of the former Wolverhampton Corporation bus fleet, became part of the newly formed West Midlands PTE, whereupon they were renumbered 708N - 719N.

The first victim to early withdrawal was Roadliner 714N, which was lost to fire when working the No17 Bridgnorth service in November 1971. The following year, AEC Swifts 708, 711 were withdrawn and sold to Northampton Transport for further use.

The remaining buses continued to be allocated to Wolverhampton’s Bilston Garage, their duties staying much the same until the loss of the rural bus network in December 1973. The Midland Red taking over these services from WMPTE as part of a wider operational agreement between the two concerns.

Being relatively modern buses and suitable for one-man-operation, WMPTE continued to use the remaining Roadliners and Swifts, but with an eye to disposing of them when the opportunity arose as they did not fit the general fleet profile. Despite the Roadliners continuing to be mechanically troublesome, 716-719 received repaints into WMPTE livery in 1972 and 1973, and may have received body strengthen modifications in preparation? However, the AEC Swifts were never repainted out of their Wolverhampton colours.

Following the premature exit of 708N, 711N (pictured) and 714N, the next to go was Roadliner 715N in July 1973 suffering structural faults to its Strachan built body. It was sold for scrap in May 1974 still wearing WCT green and yellow.

The remaining AEC Swifts came out of service between 1973 to 1974, and the last Roadliners were finally withdrawn between the end of 1974 and January of 1975. Some of these buses found new owners, but all eventually ended up being scrapped with the exception of 719N. Today, 719(N) survives at the Transport Museum Wythall, restored into WCT livery.

The picture taken by the late Dave Everitt, show AEC Swift 711N pulling out onto Railway Drive, as it departs Victoria Square Bus Station for Cheslyn Hay in July 1970.

As for the previously mentioned ‘Ring Road’, that has further relevance to this picture, as part of its Eastern section runs right through the location where this picture was taken.

Image scanned from the original 35mm colour slide.

Party Planner by Arya Spires-Dillion

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Visit this location at Immortal Castaways Horde Clan in Second Life

Norwegian Sun at Canada Place by leuntje

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Vancouver

British Columbia

Canada

Canada Place

I'm back from Canada and in the next few days I show you beautiful Vancouver through my eyes..

Canada Place is situated on the Burrard Inlet waterfront of Vancouver. It is the home of the Vancouver Convention Centre, the Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel and Vancouver's World Trade Centre. It is also the main cruise ship terminal for the region, where most of Vancouver's famous cruises to Alaska originate. The building was designed by architect Eberhard Zeidler in joint venture with MCMP and DA Architects + Planners.

The white sails of the building have made it a prominent landmark for the city.The structure was expanded in 2001 to accommodate another cruise ship berth and in 2009/10, for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Canada Place served as the Main Press Centre.

Planners Gonna... by Leslie

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If Plan A doesn't work, just remember, there are 25 more letters in the alphabet.

This is the lovely Patty Patch! This is her first picture out of her stock outfit--she is beautiful! The length and waviness of her hair is just right. This photo is for the theme "Letters" in the Blythe a Day group--I'm a day late, but at least I managed to post in the group!

julkastro.co-9565 by Julian Castro

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6 months by Angela Chandler

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Baby planner yesterday on the blog...6 months, fabulous eyes!

Natural light-big window camera left :)

www.angelachandlerphotography.com/blog/2010/05/14/sf-east...

Here she is before at 2 months:

www.flickr.com/photos/angelacphotography/4247188728/

Flying planner by Aleksandra Krivdić

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Green Test and scallion sketch by A Little Me, A Little Hue

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Testing out some green mixtures. Found out I need other yellows and blues.

There's a banana in my planner! by A Little Me, A Little Hue

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Actually, there is one on my desk. I have wanted to eat it since this morning. Yesterday's banana did not survive to get painted. This one fared a little better, it is now afternoon. But now...it's banana time! :D

alittlemealittlehue.blogspot.com/2012/03/fruitful-bounty....

2023 Planner_USLetter by Nik the Booksmith

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VÄNSKAP by Dal Angry

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Moleskine into planner by Tomie Kourai Aminoacido

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This is my moleskine planner. Check the notes

planner by seven oceans

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weekly overview

by AlondraKarwowski