^ They FINALLY finished the Kenmore station, didn't they? At long last?
My complaint about transportation in my city...
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Yeah. It's kinda pretty.
I still have vivid memories from two years ago, of emerging from Fenway Park and getting damn near trampled to death trying to get into that station. I hope it's easier now. You've got tens of thousands of baseball fans trying to cram themselves into a small underground chamber. Not gonna be pretty.
But most of those problems were probably due to the half-assed state that the station was in at the time. Is there plenty of room there now?
And does anyone in Boston know why it took so long to finish the renovation?
I don't get annoyed by bicycles, I get annoyed by people on bicycles who claim (rightfully so, of course) that they are entitled to the same right of the road as automobiles are in the city, but then do everything in their power to demonstrate just how few rules of the road they actually give a shit about. Drive your bike responsibly or walk, but don't bike like a jerk-off on public streets.
As a cyclist, they piss me off too, giving the rest of us a bad name.
I live in LA, and the public transport downtown sucks. What the city needs is more rail and subway lines. I used to take the bus quite frequently before i got my first car, and i hated it since it would take me 2 hours by bus in what takes 30 minutes by car.
Where I live, public transport rocks. You can virtually get everywhere by public transport, even to remote and lone areas. (It might take a while, though, because my city's really big.) Even at night, the system is pretty good.
Driving a car here is probably no fun, though. In the urban areas, parking space is rather sparse. There are many cyclists although I find the infrastructure (i.e. bike lanes) for them lacking in many places and riding a bike on the street seems a bit like suicide to me. People drive rather bad here.
Driving a car here is probably no fun, though. In the urban areas, parking space is rather sparse. There are many cyclists although I find the infrastructure (i.e. bike lanes) for them lacking in many places and riding a bike on the street seems a bit like suicide to me. People drive rather bad here.
Though some people ride bikes in Hobart and there are some bike lanes I think the biggest deterrence to bike riding here are the many, many hills.
I really have no idea how steep the streets of San Francisco are compared to Hobart, Scotpens (spelt it right this time). I did look at the video but it is hard to tell.
However I will post these two photos to show you the hills of Hobart. The first one, taken on the Eastern shore, is not far from where I live though I live pretty much at the bottom of the hills (though on the hillside of the main road). .
The second photo was taken about 800 meters away but shows both sides of the river and therefore you can see how high the higher suburbs of the Western Shore are.
If you look just above the corner of the house on the left you will see Hobart's tallest building, Wrest Point Casino, which is 73 meters high. The residential area behind it therefore must be at about 200 meters. The highest suburb of Hobart is at 450 meters. Most of Hobart's seaside suburbs are divided into a beachside and a hillside which means that the suburbs are only usually less than a handfull of blocks deep but quite a few blocks in length.
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Well, you can get some idea by looking at the video clip I linked to.
Thanks for the interesting information about the geography of your town. In fact, those pictures look almost exactly like the suburban hillside neighborhoods on the southern edge of the San Fernando Valley -- except that we don't have a river, and the cars are parked on the wrong side of the road!
I think it hard to tell by the video as I suspect it was shot to make streets look steeper? I might be wrong about that however. Also I don't have any photos of some of the steeper streets of Hobart, nor can I find them on the Web.
I've been to San Francisco several times, and believe me, the streets are just as steep as they look in that movie!
Here is a photo of part of Molle Street which is quite a steep street.
http://images.travelpod.com/users/sywert/1.1253471340.steep.jpg
The police often put a speed camera at the bottom on this street to catch people who increase their speed to get up the hill.
http://images.travelpod.com/users/sywert/1.1253471340.steep.jpg
The police often put a speed camera at the bottom on this street to catch people who increase their speed to get up the hill.
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