9.75 Years Later

It will be ten years in March. On a dark wintery morning in Helsinki I ran across an abandoned house while out for a walk. A once grand home in an area comprised, 100 years earlier, of Helsinki’s wealthy residents, in a state of disrepair. Windows boarded up. Porches missing. Unpainted [...]

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Part II: Just How Far?

Delivered by mail, my Greyhound tickets to Peterborough have arrived.
I revisited flying to Ontario. Sixteen days prior to departure, the tickets to Toronto were priced at $325 roundtrip. Forty-eight hours later, the price on Delta and Northwest (domestic code-share partners) had jumped to $590. That seems like a lot for what [...]

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Seattle’s New SLUT

Officially, it’s the South Lake Union Streetcar. But in the neighborhood where the new line runs, it’s called the South Lake Union Trolley — or, the SLUT. At Kapow! Coffee, a shop in the old Cascade neighborhood, 100 T-shirts bearing the words “Ride the SLUT” sold out in days, and another 100 are on order.
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Something Old, Something New.

Beautifully restored, the train station in Canal Winchester stands as a monument to what once was, and what can be, again. The last passenger train stopped here in 1949, though for eighty years prior, passengers could board trains heading to Columbus as well as Lancaster.
The rail lines went electric in 1904, with trains running [...]

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Meter Maids

The summer months might prove best. Perhaps the occasional warm day in December or February. Temperature is relative.
When parking issues turned publicly sour in Australia, meter maids came to the rescue. Parking meters were installed along the tourist-packed beaches of Australia’s Gold Coast in 1964, but by 1965 a public-relations campaign [...]

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Instructions

Here’s how the folks in Carrollton, Kentucky are dealing with things these days. I stopped for gas at this Shell station on the way to Louisville and couldn’t help but capture the moment.
Reminds me of the saying, “Be careful for what you ask for”.

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A slight oversight?

I’ll be attending the Columbus Re-Wired event this coming Thursday. The “international ideas competition that imagines how an integrated transit network would transform the livability and sustainability of our region”.
Interestingly enough, the poster for this event makes no mention of how to get to Smith Brothers Hardware (850 North Fourth Street) other than to [...]

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