01 Wednesday Jun 2016
Posted in architecture, Calgary, design, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, transit, urban
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alberta, architecture, bridge, calgary, canada, design, photography, photowalk, random, transit, transportation, urban
There isn’t a big-name architect attached to Calgary’s George C. King Bridge over the Bow River at St. Patrick’s Island but it’s beautiful all the same.
23 Saturday Apr 2016
Posted in architecture, design, Portland, random, trains, Trains & Transit, transit, Travel, urban
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architecture, bridge, design, night, Oregon, photography, photowalk, Portland, random, transit, transportation, Travel, urban
This striking structure is part of Tillikum Crossing, the newest bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Opened to traffic in fall 2015, it’s reserved for use by MAX light rail Orange Line trains, Portland Streetcars, cyclists and pedestrians. It is the first bridge of this sort in the United States, according to TriMet.
28 Sunday Feb 2016
Posted in montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, transit, Travel, urban
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canada, Hipstamatic, iPhoneography, métro, montreal, photography, quebec, rail, railroad, railway, subway, train, trains, transit, Travel, urban
The Montreal Transit Corp. (Société de transport de Montréal, or STM) recently began revenue service of its next-generation métro cars. Dubbed “Azur”, the STM’s MPM-10 rolling stock is being built by a Bombardier-Alstom consortium. The order is for 468 cars, assembled in nine-car train-sets.
As the newer-model trains are gradually delivered, they will replace vintage MR-63 rolling stock, in service since the Montreal métro opened in 1966.
I only got a brief glimpse of the new Azur train at the Mont-Royal métro station on my last trip to Montreal, on its second day of revenue service. Perhaps I’ll be lucky enough to ride one upon my next visit.
15 Wednesday Jan 2014
Posted in photography, San Francisco, transit, Travel, urban
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Bay Bridge, bridge, california, Oakland, photography, san francisco, transit, transportation, Travel
While San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge gets a lot of attention, the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge is no less visually impressive. The section you see above opened in 2013.
22 Sunday Dec 2013
Posted in photography, photowalking, San Francisco, trains, transit, Travel, urban
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california, iPhoto, MUNI, photography, photowalk, rail, railroad, railway, san francisco, streetcars, transit, Travel, urban
Looking down at San Francisco from Coit Tower, the streetscape can seem make-believe … if you use the right special effect in iPhoto, anyway.
31 Wednesday Jul 2013
Posted in New York, photography, photowalking, random, trains, transit, Travel, urban
26 Wednesday Jun 2013
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, flood, photography, photowalking, trains, transit, urban
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alberta, C-Train, calgary, canada, flood, flooding, LRT, photowalk, rail, railroad, railway, trains, transit, urban
Calgary Transit workers remove debris from the LRT tunnel north of Victoria Park/Stampede station that was submerged to the ceiling during the height of the flooding.
Calgary Transit’s downtown infrastructure took it on the chin during the record flooding over the last week.
Here are some photos I snapped of the damage and of the work being done to get things moving again.
More work done near Victoria Park/Stampede station. And yes, those tracks are really suspended in mid-air!
Floodwaters carried away the ballast beneath the platform at Victoria Park/Stampede station.
Crews work to restore the Cemetery Hill tunnel, above and next two images.
Buses put into service as a C-Train shuttle roam on a very dusty Macleod Trail on June 25.
10 Monday Jun 2013
Posted in art, New York, photography, photowalking, random, trains, transit, Travel, urban
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art, ceramics, New York, NYC, photography, photowalk, random, station, subway, train, trains, transit, Travel, urban
A follow-up to yesterday’s photo: This is at 66 St. Subway station in New York. Lots of beautiful ceramic art adorn the station walls — not just at that station but throughout all the underground parts of the network.
15 Wednesday May 2013
Posted in Apple, architecture, British Columbia, Canada, fun, iPhone, photography, photowalking, random, technology, trains, transit, Travel, urban, Vancouver
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b.c., british columbia, canada, Canadian Pacific, history, iPhone, iPhoneography, panorama, photography, photowalk, rail, railroad, railway, random, roundhouse, train, trains, Travel, urban, vancouver, Yaletown
This is the former Canadian Pacific roundhouse in Vancouver’s Yaletown district, captured with a sweep of my iPhone’s camera in “panorama” mode.
It was really interesting to try this, because the roundhouse is built in the shape of an arc … so if you’re standing at the centrepoint of the arc and you swivel to capture the panorama, the main subject doesn’t look very distorted at all, while everything else does.
02 Thursday May 2013
Posted in British Columbia, Canada, fun, photography, photowalking, random, transit, urban, Vancouver
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b.c., british columbia, canada, dog, photography, photowalk, random, Travel, urban, vancouver
Spotted at the public market on Granville Island in Vancouver.
Ricky Leong 