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it you re done you have failed as a state well done dudes stephen fry and hugh laurie saw all this coming of course posted by phoebe barton at 12 34 no comments labels corporations money police uk wednesday june 20 2012 photo it s a pretty obscure angle although i picked up plenty of portland streetcar photos while gathering the details for a future tunnel visions post most are from very similar perspectives thanks to the limited choices available to me not having access to the upper story of a building along the streetcar route where i could camp out and wait for one to come by i had to take what i could get for alternate views fortunately streetcar 007 was kind enough to head off northbound just as the aerial tram was crossing moody avenue that roof is a real departure from the streetcar s otherwise smooth streamlined appearance but all that mechanical stuff has gotta go somewhere i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it under the creative commons attribution non commercial share alike 3 0 unported license this means that you are free to share to copy distribute and transmit the work and to remix to adapt the work under the following conditions attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work noncommercial you may not use this work for commercial purposes and share alike if you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one posted by phoebe barton at 11 59 no comments labels creative commons photo portland streetcars tuesday june 19 2012 hello passengers we re listening some folks are naturally suspicious of government and thereby primed to react strongly whenever it suggests an action they disapprove of take the example of the united states where a general distrust of the government is one of the unifying factors of the modern right wing while it s wise not to take anything a government says at face value with no critical analysis it s equally wise to do the same for everything in many respects for profit corporations have far more incentive to do things worthy of suspicion than do governments in canada that anti government suspicion has been surfacing in fits and starts over the last year ever since stephen harper got his majority and decided it was time to show canadians what happens when the conservatives have no checks on their power for the record what happens is along the lines of fuck you we re doing this anyway the petulant refusal of the conservatives to even consider breaking up their omnibus budget bill last week the robotic party discipline which fuels the flames that lick at canadian democracy what i ask are they trying to hide from us that is the sort of thing we should be focused on the sort of thing we should hold the government to account over the sort of thing we should make sure that we do not forget when it comes to this sort of situation it s all about picking battles but some people are so fired up that they want to pick them all recently the canada border services agency stated that it is working toward the installation of hd cameras and microphones capable of eavesdropping on travellers conversations it didn t take long for this news to spread across the internet boing boing pointed to it with the delightfully unbiased headline canadian government wants to fill airports with kgb style hidden microphones i ve seen others react with surprise at the announcement surprise that this wasn t already being done i mean these are airports we re talking about places where my mom instructed me to never so much as utter the word bomb in any context whatsoever to be honest i was a bit surprised this wasn t already going on myself to be really honest i m having a hard time getting worked up over this i m sorry i didn t catch that please repeat your threat in the direction of the microphone i understand that when a government agency suggests surveillance opposition is the appropriate automatic reaction otherwise democracy would probably last about half an hour but we can t just build our policies and our outlooks based on automatic responses this is not nineteen eighty four this is not even close to it nobody s installing telescreens in our homes nobody s wiring up public squares for audio video monitoring no one s tagging dissidents or making them disappear these are realistically airports places where something like eighty seven percent of all the conversations these microphones could capture would deal with how some air canada flight is delayed yet again or air canada lost someone s luggage or that air canada is expensive and sucks they are traditionally not places that are vital to free expression airports are not public squares and there wasn t any occupy laguardia or occupy yvr last year unless you work there if you re there for more than a couple of hours than either you ve gone through security really early or air canada is delaying your flight by five hours if this was something different something more wide ranging like banning all usage of photography or recording devices in airports that would be a serious affront to our rights and cause for pushback after all that sort of law would have allowed the rcmp to sweep the circumstances regarding the death of robert dziekanski right under the rug really it s the idea of the slippery slope that has so many people fired up i think i wouldn t be surprised if boing boing s rather hyperbolic headline is at least partially motivated by that cory doctorow though originally from canada now lives in the united kingdom and is well aware of what a surveillance state is like and a uk style ubiquitous cctv setup should absolutely be prevented from being built in canada the important thing is to pick one s battles there are a lot of people who won t get worked up about this sort of surveillance in airports who wouldn t see anything wrong with it who would look at the people closing ranks against it and wonder what their problem is raising awareness about this kind of surveillance in airports is always a good thing but unless it threatens to go beyond the airport there are plenty of battles to be fought and choosing the wrong ones only weakens the whole posted by phoebe barton at 12 37 no comments labels airport canada politics security surveillance monday june 18 2012 photo a precariously pyramidal perch in and around downtown seattle you ll find representatives of pretty much every major architectural movement of the last hundred and twenty years even googie within every style though there s ample opportunity to go beyond what s ordinary and leave a striking impression i got that from rainier tower a skyscraper that doesn t seem unusual at all until you notice that it s balanced on top of an inverted concrete pyramid really it almost looks like the realization of a jenga tower something that shouldn t be able to stand up at all but does anyway like a sufficiently strong breeze would knock it over it s still got one hell of a look though i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it under the creative commons attribution non commercial share alike 3 0 unported license this means that you are free to share to copy distribute and transmit the work and to remix to adapt the work under the following conditions attribution you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work noncommercial you may not use this work for commercial purposes and share alike if you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one posted by phoebe barton at 12 06 no comments labels architecture creative commons photo seattle sunday june 17 2012 tunnel visions the seattle center monorail every once in a while acts of minor treason hops out of new westminster lands in some other city with some other light or heavy rail transit system and looks at different ways of getting around on two rails whether it s on the ground under it or above it all there was a time not so long ago when monorails were the future those sleek shiny railways of the sky would glide as softly as clouds on unbending tracks across all the great cities of the world lifting people above the choked and crowded streets and into the future culturally speaking in the immediate postwar years the monorail was like the rocketship seen as intrinsically futuristic thanks in part to the promotional efforts of monorail manufacturers working to carve out a niche for themselves while the idea of mass transit was being reinvented in north america the average person s first encounter with a monorail would more likely than not have come at one of the disney theme parks the disneyland monorail opened in 1959 the first of its kind on the continent perhaps in the end that was part of the problem three years later a second monorail started rolling on the west coast as part of 1962 s century 21 exposition in seattle washington the seattle center monorail was built to connect the world s fair grounds with downtown seattle two kilometers away for seventy five cents more than five dollars today an adult could board at the westlake mall station and in a matter of minutes emerge at the foot of the space needle centerpiece of the fair it was quick clean and airy and on the covers of the magazines right next to the needle as an example of what america would look like in years to come granted other world s fairs also had their monorails but unlike vancouver in 1986 seattle chose to keep its one railed remnant of the exposition running fifty years later the fair has moved on and the future didn t unfold exactly the way they expected it to back in 1962 nevertheless the monorail is still there making it one of the handful of american monorails that are not in an amusement park a zoo or las vegas a reminder of what people looked ahead to once but which the future never quite delivered today while it s got long headways relatively limited service and seems to be mostly a tourist shuttle it nevertheless has some role to play in the greater seattle transportation network such as it is but if things had gone another way it could have been so much more system red train waits at westlake center station if you want to visualize the seattle center monorail draw a backwards l and mark a dot at each end one for westlake center and one for seattle center congratulations you ve now created your very own rough monorail route map though it does gloss over some important bits namely it s more of a diagonal than a simple straight line to put it in a vancouver context imagine if expo 86 had seen the construction of the skytrain but only between main street science world and commercial broadway sure potentially useful in certain circumstances but far too limited to be of significant value to the urban fabric from its western terminus at the space needle the monorail soars over the emp museum and runs south to 5th avenue which it follows southeast all the way to the westlake center terminus just north of pine and adjacent to the mall s food court you ll find most of the track elevated above the median of 5th avenue at approximately a third floor level for fifty years that s been it the two original world s fair trains have been going back and forth across that stretch of track from morning until night never able to venture further it s not like it s isolated from the rest of the urban transit network though at westlake passengers can transfer to the seattle streetcar or the link light rail system as well as the buses that provide service through the area but there s no integration between the services in particular if you need to get from the monorail to the streetcar and it s raining as it frequently does in seattle take an umbrella or resign yourself to getting wet this lack of integration extends to the fare structure it s perhaps the only public transit system in the seattle area that doesn t accept orca the regionally integrated fare card system i would imagine this comes down to it being privately owned and in fact it may be one of the only transit systems in the west to pull in a profit when it comes to fares the system is in one respect exactly where it was in 1962 it s cash only 2 25 for a one way ticket or 4 50 for a round trip in other words only slightly more expensive than if link trains served seattle center instead based on that system s downtown pricing fares can be bought either at old style ticket booths or if it s a bit later in the evening aboard the moving train itself depending how long it takes to get your change together you might end up putting your wallet away just in time to alight at the far end of the line and even though frasier and niles managed to sneak aboard without paying in that one episode of frasier it s the sort of thing that i can t see being easily pulled off in reality beyond the bottlenecks there just don t seem to be that many people boarding any particular train if you re a heavy monorail user though the operators have something special for you a regular monthly unlimited use pass can be got for the low low price of 45 which makes me curious as to how big the potential market is of people who are literally just going from point a to point b i suppose if you work at the space needle and live downtown it just might be the deal of a lifetime as long as you have a sufficiently broad definition of deal stations the monorail station at seattle center has changed significantly since 1962 even though there are only two stations along the monorail they re at least distinguished from each other architecturally the seattle center station still retains echoes of its world s fair appearance most notably in the alweg monorail sign above the entrance at the seattle center station the usual station design is turned on its head while there s no fixed barrier to entry aside from the cashiers booths there are banks of turnstiles to pass through upon exiting the westlake center station additionally incorporates platform doors and a barricaded boarding area made necessary due to the station s elevation it would hardly be good for business if someone took a thirty foot swan dive into traffic it s easy to forget that the monorail is a transit system the design of the stations themselves the cashiers booths in particular put me more in the mind of an amusement park attraction and realistically that s what it was built as the souvenier penny grinder on the seattle center platform is just another reminder of that both are open airy and covered though at westlake center there is a small gap between the train and the station roof not enough to get more than a drizzle on you if it s raining but enough to remind you that 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