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In 1988 I visited Sacramento for the very first time. But I can't remember the name of this street. El Cobrador probably knows where this picture was made.
I've also got some slides of San Jose and Sacramento, but I still have to scan these.
COST: $1.5 billion for 7.3 miles = $205,479,452.05 per mile. Yikes! That's $38,900 per foot.
Yes: $205 million per mile. I'm a mass transit fan, but these figures make as much sense to me as advanced Spanish grammar does to my cats. None. But at least the agency puts up the number so anyone inclined to do the math can see. A cynic (or lawyer) would say this is so the public can't complain after this information has been disclosed.
I wonder whether the transit agency is putting these banners up in enemy territory, i.e., Clackamas County, the terminus of the line and the fatherland of light-rail haters.
Near the Oregon Rail Heritage Center, inner SE Portland, Or.
this used to be the Hofpleinlijn, another heavy rail line between Rotterdam and The Hague. It has been converted in the RandstadRail project to light rail operation with Rotterdam metro cars.
A friend once remarked that I had a proclivity to cut the tops from grain elevators, water towers, et. al. Well, he was right, and since them I've been pretty good about getting the tops in the comps, here the skyscrapers. I think thats good advice for any photographer. I mean, its easier to crop a photo, as I have here, than to add to a photo.
Technical tests of the tram system started amidst coronavirus outbreak and state of emergency. Tests are performed using a tram built in 1981 and used previously in Hanover.