Photo Of The Month - July 2013 Entries

[Transportman]

I wouldn't regard the subject as "easy" mind you...

Or at least in my mind anyway.

I also don't regard it as easy. I know a few places, but I never go there anymore, so I can't take the picture.

[Dave]

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I fully agree, no objection from me.

Brilliant photo!

[Voyager One]

Hehehe... I posted my entry, where's yours Dave?

[Voyager One]

OK people, am I missing something here? Why is there no other photo posted except mine? Come on!

[Transportman]

OK people, am I missing something here? Why is there no other photo posted except mine? Come on!

No, just a difficult theme this month.

I decided to enter with my entry from April, as it also fits the theme of this month. Background story with the picture: It is Antwerpen Central station, the only station (I know), with tracks at multiple levels.

[Ameecher]

Here is my entry, a picture from 2006 of the Berlin Transport Museum, I liked it for all the transport it crammed into one shot.

[Transportman]

Here is my entry, a picture from 2006 of the Berlin Transport Museum, I liked it for all the transport it crammed into one shot.

Is that all part of the museum? How big is it? And is it a nice museum?

[doktorhonig]

Narf. I wanted to submit a picture of a bridge over a bridge. I have to look for something else.

[Ameecher]

Narf. I wanted to submit a picture of a bridge over a bridge. I have to look for something else.

Go for it anyway.

[Voyager One]

Oh finally I can enjoy some fantastic entries!!! Well done guys!

[JamieLei]

I'm going to submit one, but I think it's important to understand the context behind it, rather than just think 'blurry photo'

Speeding Red Public Light Bus in Hong Kong

Red Public Light Buses play an important part of the transport system in Hong Kong, bridging the gap between bus and taxi. Operated exclusively with Toyota Coasters (16 seats) and without pre-determined routes with only the vaguest route sign on the front (this one said 'Sai Kung' to 'Mong Kok'), they are free to be flagged down by anybody anywhere, and to set passengers down anywhere as long as it's in the same general direction. This one cost HK$15 (£1.25) for the full length of the 18km journey (and luckily did not stop at all en-route), something that would have otherwise cost over HK$100 in a true taxi for exactly the same speed (albeit more comfortable) journey. In the economically developed world, they truly are an oddity, yet an essential mode of transport.

Obviously, with a taxi mentality and to cram in as many trips as possible, in recent years, speeding Red Public Light Buses have become quite a concern. All buses are now fitted with internal speedometers for the benefit of passengers that audibly bleep and flash when the bus tops the legal limit of 80kph (50mph), hence the compromise. It's almost impossible to describe how shaky these things are at high speed - imagine the scariest roller coaster you've been on, throwing you left and right without warning, and then apply it to a road situation, flying 3 lanes left to take a highway exit, then stopping without warning because the driver's spotted someone who's flagged them down or to weave around a double-decker bus. They're supposed to have seat belts, but I couldn't find one. Thus the speedometer was supposed to slow drivers down, in addition to the 80kph speed limiter, but the general consensus is that it does little to stop speeding and even discourages drivers from going slow.

In such conditions obviously, it's impossible to take a decent photo. Nonetheless, I hope the shakeyness of it shows just what harrowing conditions a Public Light Bus caught at an illegal 81kph is like!

[YNM]

Speeding Red Public Light Bus in Hong Kong

You have to try the ones down here !

[TinyMusic]

Speeding Red Public Light Bus in Hong Kong

You have to try the ones down here !

I thought about that as well. Since you're in Indonesia, you got PLENTY of chances on getting some photos specifically related to this theme

[vear]

Here is my entry, a picture from 2006 of the Berlin Transport Museum, I liked it for all the transport it crammed into one shot.

Huh, I've been there recently which also resulted in a decent shot Anyway, below is my submission. I had some doubts before picking it, as I've recently collected several views most of the world would consider odd, unusual, dumb or otherwise far from normal. In this case however, the competition was the first thing I thought of upon taking the picture. Hope you like it. Other Ukrainian delights I've recently captured are tramline in Kiev running through a middle of a forest (almost an hour of drive through complete wilderness until a housing estate finally shows up) or one in Molochnoye (a small village with a beach and a couple of b&bs), having a total of 2 kilometres in length, with pure purpose to provide transit to the beach. Perhaps they'll fit another theme sometime.

Odessa, Ukraine. Tram line no. 20 leads through... swamplands, with reeds on both sides of the track, water flowing through them from time to time and lots of mosquitoes or other insects flying above. The speed is amazing 20 km/h at peak. Its mood is unbelievable.

[doktorhonig]

Didn't have time for the bridge over a bridge, so here's a public lift next to some nice old stairs. The odditiy is, that there's no station or something. The lift is just there because the two streets are two storeys apart.