It’s also easy to understand how Gaudà got run over by one. It’s like the new tramline here that runs along a pedestrian street, with people crossing willynilly in front of oncoming trams.
*waves to Mar* Hola cielo! Gracias por las flores. 🙂
My mother was nearly run down by a streetcar when she first came to Canada. In Dumfries, where she had come from, there was room between the cars going in opposite directions so you could stand between them. She didn’t realize that the streetcars here, in Ottawa, didn’t have that space. She was very lucky that at the last moment she realized that.
My great-grandmother was run down and killed by an army truck when she stepped off a streetcar.
I took the streetcar a few times before they got rid of them in Ottawa. Of course, they still have them in Toronto.
For years you could see the old tracks and then they covered them over. Eventually, they pulled up the old cobbles and the tracks with them. Many people don’t even realize we ever had them, here.
I couldn’t watch much of it because I kept being afraid somebody was going to get killed. We have a new streetcar here, but for the most part people don’t step in front of it. And I think it has to stop at crosswalks. The most amusing thing about it is at first they called it the South Lake Union Trolley, until someone pointed out to them that it spells SLUT. They changed the name, but due to the politics of getting it built, and some of the business owners resentment of being taxed for it, it still gets called the SLUT.
Thing about the Toronto streetcars is that they just basically run along a typical street traffic lane.
Here it’s a line that runs along a very wide and recently pedestrianised street that is also a cycle path … so it does get a bit confusing at times. I think people forget that the trams are there until they are practically on top of them.
casa azahar 
Hi woman,
Lovely video!
I was once in Barcelona. It is an amazing city, I want to comeback.
I send you a big hug and all my best wishes for you
and this flowers of azahar
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1368/1170964380_84f1d6ecea.jpg?v=0
Un abrazo Az, my thoughts are with you, preciosa
Mar
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That is really fascinating! So many bicycles and so little traffic of any other kind, even carts. And the people so fascinated with the camera.
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That is rather beautiful. I believe there’s only one tram line in Barcelona now. Saw trams when I was there, but didn’t ride on them.
TRiG.
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It’s also easy to understand how Gaudà got run over by one. It’s like the new tramline here that runs along a pedestrian street, with people crossing willynilly in front of oncoming trams.
*waves to Mar* Hola cielo! Gracias por las flores. 🙂
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My mother was nearly run down by a streetcar when she first came to Canada. In Dumfries, where she had come from, there was room between the cars going in opposite directions so you could stand between them. She didn’t realize that the streetcars here, in Ottawa, didn’t have that space. She was very lucky that at the last moment she realized that.
My great-grandmother was run down and killed by an army truck when she stepped off a streetcar.
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I took the streetcar a few times before they got rid of them in Ottawa. Of course, they still have them in Toronto.
For years you could see the old tracks and then they covered them over. Eventually, they pulled up the old cobbles and the tracks with them. Many people don’t even realize we ever had them, here.
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I couldn’t watch much of it because I kept being afraid somebody was going to get killed. We have a new streetcar here, but for the most part people don’t step in front of it. And I think it has to stop at crosswalks. The most amusing thing about it is at first they called it the South Lake Union Trolley, until someone pointed out to them that it spells SLUT. They changed the name, but due to the politics of getting it built, and some of the business owners resentment of being taxed for it, it still gets called the SLUT.
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SLUT … ha! 🙂
Thing about the Toronto streetcars is that they just basically run along a typical street traffic lane.
Here it’s a line that runs along a very wide and recently pedestrianised street that is also a cycle path … so it does get a bit confusing at times. I think people forget that the trams are there until they are practically on top of them.
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