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Westbound train had been waiting a couple minutes when I took this; passengers (and the photographer) are blissfully unaware that they're actually going to be stuck there for close to two hours.
The story again: I hadn't used my Metra weekend pass much Sunday, so I somewhat randomly decided to take the Elburn line out of Ogilvie, get out early in the route to photograph a station, then get the eastbound train that'd be due a few minutes later. I got out at Berkeley (7:09) but the train stayed on the tracks...I got nervous I wouldn't be able to cross in time for the 7:19 back. So I reboarded, just to get out of the cold. We were there almost two hours--apparently there was a freight train incident at Lombard? The westbound train left a while before my eastbound train showed up...around 9:20. I actually feel I lucked out that this was the only significant Metra delay of my many trips the past few months...
...and this story proves my transit nerdery has reached frightening levels.
UC Berkeley students and faculty protest the impact of state budget cuts to the UC system at Bancroft and Telegraph on September 24, 2009. (Photo: Nicole Ely)
4H High school students tour and learn from employees at Bayer on Friday, April 5, 2019 in Berkeley, Calif. ( Alison Yin/AP Images for National 4-H Council)
Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, California
The library was built between 1931 and 1934 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also a Berkeley Landmark.
Learn more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Public_Library
The University of California, Berkeley oak grove controversy arose over the planned removal of a grove of oak trees in preparation for the construction of a student athletic training center for the University of California, Berkeley.
The university's actions sparked three lawsuits, as well as a tree sit-in that ran from December 2006 to September 2008, when the trees in question were finally cut down.
The tree-sit was initiated and led by Zachary RunningWolf, a community activist and former progressive Berkeley mayoral candidate. RunningWolf said that construction of the athletic center would be "a hate crime; we call it Guantánamo Berkeley". He also has said that the Illuminati and the Masons are conspiring to build the center because "the grove is at the intersection of compass lines connecting the Haas School of Business (money) with Alcatraz (state violence) and the Lawrence Berkeley lab that gave America nukes"
Scott Donahue's "Big People" sculptures were dedicated in 2009. The two 30-foot high stainless steel, fiberglass, bronze and concrete structures cap the ends of the pedestrian and bicycle bridge that crosses over Interstate 80 next to the Berkeley Marina. This is Berkeley's largest public art installation, in both size and scope - the sculptures are visible from a mile away in both directions, and cost the city over $200,000 -- twice as much as was originally allotted.
The east side sculpture celebrates Berserkeley's "urban and cultural experience" and the west side sculpture celebrates East Shore State Park.
The statues - even with their heroic scale - seem out-of-place overlooking the uncaring highway, far from the actual campus protest stomping grounds.
Interstate 80 pedestrian/bicycle overpass (just south of University Avenue) in Berkeley, California
More carvings on a cabinet that has a number of curious figures. I'm not sure you'd feel entirely comfortable with this in the corner of your sitting-room...
Saturdays at UC Berkeley
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Protest at UC Berkeley (Memorial Oak Grove)
This group is camped out at a site where old, mature oak trees are scheduled to be torn out
to make way for a new gym.
The group's website: www.saveoaks.com (now expired)
The following is from a flyer the group was handing out:
UC Berkeley is pursuing plans to destroy the Memorial Oak Grove (including the ~200 year old
heritage oak shown at right) [Refers to photo in flyer] to make way for an athletic training facility
and concrete patio. The development plans would gut the heart of the oak woodland, cutting
down 38 mature Coast Live Oaks, leaving only a thin line of 12 oaks along the edge of the grove.
The plan is in blatant violation of the City of Berkeley Coast Live Oak Moratorium that forbids cutting down any mature Coast Live Oaks within city limits. Every oak in the Memorial Grove should be protected by law, but because the University is part of state government they have said they "are not obliged to follow local environmental laws." By choosing to break this law, UC is dismissing
the values of the community, ignoring the significance of a native ecosystem, and setting a terrible example for its students.
The Memorial Oak Grove is the largest surviving Coast Live Oak woodland in the Berkeley lowlands. Native oak woodlands support the most complex terrestrial ecosystems in the state of California.
The University has suggested that it would be OK to cut down the trees because they would "replace them 3 to 1" with new trees. There are three fundamental problems with this:
1. The existing ecosystem would be destroyed.
2. Three small trees can't begin to replace the biomass of a mature oak, a true replacement would need to be at least one hundred to one.
3. UC recently revealed that most of the "replacement" trees wouldn't even be oaks! And the "replacements" would be scattered across the campus.
Meanwhile, alternative construction sites exist that would not require this needless destruction.
We believe a University that has produced 27 Nobel laureates can figure out a way to build a new gym without cutting down a valuable natural area or breaking local environmental laws.
Saving the Memorial Oak Grove is Endorsed by
The Sierra Club
The California Native Plant Society
The California Oak Foundation
Julia Butterfly Hill
Berkeley Castle, located on a ridge above Berkeley Springs State Park in West Virginia, was built in 1885 by businessman Samuel Taylor Suit for his young bride, although he didn't live to see its completion. Built of local sandstone, it was open for house tours for many years but is now privately owned. More information is located on the town's website.
I took this picture from a distance in downtown Berkeley Springs, and obviously the foliage obscures much of the building, but I liked the appearance of it peeking out from the trees.