11 Saturday Mar 2017
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Public art at the Centre Street CTrain station in downtown Calgary: These poor figures are condemned to the fate of perpetually waiting for the next train.
07 Tuesday Mar 2017
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29 Sunday Jan 2017
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03 Tuesday Jan 2017
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I love this structure at King’s Cross station in London. There’s something soothing about the curvy lattice … although I couldn’t tell you why, exactly.
21 Wednesday Dec 2016
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There are a lot of shiny, modern trams plying the streets of Prague … and yet by utter fluke, the ones I captured with my cameras during my visit there this fall were all of the vintage variety. Here are two more.
14 Wednesday Dec 2016
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Here’s a characteristic main street in the centre of Prague — brightly coloured tram and all!
12 Saturday Nov 2016
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Oberbaumbrücke, which crosses the Spree River in Berlin, is a bridge for private vehicular traffic and trains to/from the Warschauer Straße station at the eastern end of the U-Bahn’s Line 1. This photo was snapped on a gorgeous afternoon this past September.
01 Wednesday Jun 2016
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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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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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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.
Ricky Leong 