True but it’s an incredible view, especially at sunset. There’s a big project underway to double track everything. Here’s a brochure for the project if you’re interested.
LossanBrochure_FINAL.pdf (2.0 MB)
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My dad grew up in Oceanside and @OakCityKarla and I got married in Carlsbad where my grandfather built a church in the early 60s after retiring from the Navy.
First look shots from Seagrove Park in Del Mar, on the Coaster tracks.
Dec 2018
Same rock? Laguna Beach?
Aug 2017
Love love love that area down to San Diego. We just got back a few weeks ago and can’t wait to go back!
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Wow what a small world!! That’s awesome. It’s definitely a cool place to be. I tried flying in downtown, but the FAA was having absolutely none of it. Bummer. That’s very busy airspace with SAN, the Coast Guard, The Navy Yard, NAS North Island, the SEALs, & the submarine base. Probably hard to sneak flights without getting detected by something haha.
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I won’t publicly say where I may have or may Not have flown in the San Diego area.
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I will say it’s probably the prettiest train ride I’ve ever been on. Watching the sun go down over the Pacific from a train to San Diego was such a memorable experience.
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How did that beardless groomsman get in that party?
And at first I thought she had a gun to your chest, lol. I saw it was your tie.
PS, I got the shots of the trains on the cliff about 200 feet south of where you guys are standing in the picture.
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no doubt that it’s pretty from the train.
Love Oside. My brother lived there for a few years.
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I feel like the horizontal scale of this building is totally out of place for the area. It just looks like a big skywall behind the row of shops. If it were two or three even taller towers with gaps it’d be fine by me but there’s something uncanny and imposing about the way we build space-filling borg cubes now.
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Looks like it’s actually happening with some sort of official announcement today. This is a huge win for the region and North Carolina in general.
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moore square had a small one at one point…strange odor sometimes
So this is random, but I forgot I caught a pic of Goat Canyon Trestle on the way into San Diego. It was built in 1932/33 & is about 700’ long & 180’ tall. It carried passengers & freight back in the day. You can hike out to it now but they say you should go with someone whos done it before on your first attempt. There’s not much out there and you’re on your own for a while if something happens. Anyway, here’s some stock images. I think the last one is a replica at the SD model railroad museum. Drone pics coming…one day.
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NYC is working to daylight one of their urban waterways, The Bronx’s Tibbetts Brook, at a cost of $130mm as a flood mitigation project:
“The plan to daylight Tibbetts Brook would be one of the city’s most ambitious green infrastructure projects. The brook would be rerouted above ground for one mile — including along a former railroad line that would be turned into a new greenway — before being sent back underground for a half mile in a new dedicated pipe to the Harlem River.”
Turns out when a hurricane floods a creek and it’s forced down into sewer pipes instead of “naturally” overflowing, the whole system breaks and you end up with this:
To no one’s surprise the main holdup is… CSX. The railway doesn’t want to sell the defunct railway land in the right-of-way.
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Charlotte is getting a cool ped bridge over 277 between uptown and South End.
Was down there this weekend and 277 is perfectly below grade right in the the prime areas linking Uptown and South End from church st and south Blvd They should really consider capping the freeway and creating a linking park.
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I mean it looks okay but it’s needed for Charlotte because downtown (uptown) is strapped by the 277. We don’t have that issue. I would like to urbanize the MLK blvd/Wilmington Street road network instead of any fancy bypass.
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Gridding the Saunders / MLK interchange should help some. I personally think they should try to make it at grade though and develop all 4 quadrants.
Then basically funnel the traffic to / from 40 onto Wilmington since it’s already a wasteland and hard to develop because of the RR and stream. Then that’d allow you to cut Saunders down, add a cycle track, maybe even bus lanes and make it more attractive to development instead of just a pass by corridor. I actually have a drawling of all this but I’m probably a few weeks out from finishing it.
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We already tried that with Peace and Capital years and years ago to no avail. I think it’s a futile fight, especially since the current MLK bridge isn’t at its end of life.
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That one would be harder imo. Officials likely want uninterrupted flow leaving downtown to the north since the volumes are over 50k and only getting higher. When capital splits south of peace you only have 2 phase signals so it’s fine. But if Peace and Capital was a signal you’d be looking at a 8 phase signal and it’d probably be a complete bottleneck. Leaving from the south already has more signals and other decent ways in and out of town so it wouldn’t be as bad.
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