#08/06/2023

[vhscorp]

Vivre en écoutant son cœur, c’est très bien, mais il faut savoir rester prudent et toujours garder son cerveau à portée de main…

V. H. SCORP

[so-sweet-nana]

Nana went to Hyunah's exhibition

The color of Hyuna is everywhere. I like her pure and honest appearance. Stay pretty 🦋🌸✨ #ssl발점 #hyuna+sanchae #DDASAKEEM #IEnjoyedIt

[adamantmirage]

god I miss 24 hour stores

[dailysudeikis]

Jason Sudeikis at the Las Vegas Aces vs. New York Liberty game August 06, 2023.

[merpmonde]

Strasbourg's tramway's 30th anniversary!

On this day in 1994, Strasbourg inaugurated - or rather, resurrected - its tramway network. Like many cities in France, Strasbourg had a streetcar system until the late 1950s, when it was decided that cars would take over. 30 years of worsening congestion and pollution later, the town chose a tramway, which had made a successful return in the mid 1980s in Nantes and Grenoble, over an automatic metro to revitalise its transit service.

Unlike Nantes and Grenoble, Strasbourg looked to foreign streetcar manufacturers Socimi and ABB, who designed a fully low-floor tram with generous windows. The Eurotram was at first a 33-metre vehicle (original form seen above), which quickly proved insufficient. A lengthened version, with an extra motor module and carriage, appeared in the following years.

Personally, I quite like this tram for the massive windows, the very mechanical sounds as it runs, and the fact that the warning bell is a real bell (later models have an electronic bell which... just sounds worse). A downside I have noticed, though not for me specifically, is that it has a low ceiling.

After losing out in the 90s, national constructor Alstom won the next round of contracts for Strasbourg's trams in the 2000s. The Citadis model, fully low-floor and taller than the Eurotrams, entered service in 2005. More Citadis trams arrived in 2016, with a new design that I really like, and with special adaptations to allow it to run in Germany, as the network crossed the border to Kehl in 2017, a first for a French tram operator.

Today, the network consists of 6 lines, crisscrossing the city centre and heading out into the suburbs. A 7th line is in the planning stages, due to head North towards Bischheim and Schiltigheim. Despite refurbishment, the Eurotrams won't be around forever, and new trams are on order - more from Alstom.

[georgenotfound-archive]

George tweet at Shadoune 2023/08/06

[caranoirs]

[nicoscheer]

[nicydraws]

Wip posted on my insta story (@ nicydraws) on June 8th

WIP of Miku Project Diva Redraw challenge

[biggsodorcitystories]

Happy Percy & Duck Day!

06/08/2023

Percy x Duck is one of my favourite one-sided ships. I see it as a kid having a crush on his babysitter or the teen next door scenario. But it's a very fluffy ship nonetheless.

(This is usually the part just before Percy wakes up!)

[vhscorp]

Je ne connais pas l’avenir, mais si je dois partir demain, j’emporterai tous tes sourires pour m’éclairer sur le chemin…

V. H. SCORP

[so-sweet-nana]

Photos and videos from the instagram of the stylist Nana went with to Hyunah's exhibition

[uni-versosenpapel]

Si solo la distancia no fuera una variable complicada, nuestra ecuación ya se habría resuelto.

-Hydra

[dailysudeikis]

Jason Sudeikis with his children, Otis and Daisy at the Barclays Center in NYC today - August 06, 2023.

[merpmonde]

Kanazawa-Tsuruga Shinkansen extension open!

Since yesterday, these beauties (seen at Takasaki on the same trip I had that "race" into Omiya) have another 120 km of track to play on, as the Hokuriku Shinkansen extends further West along the coast of the Sea of Japan into Fukui Prefecture.

Of course, the best news here is that travel times between Kanazawa and Tsuruga are slashed - let me rephrase: halved - compared to the previous fastest express services. The dream of completing the route to Kyoto and Osaka is in reach, and if you add the Maglev line, there could, in the long-term future, be three full high-speed Tokyo-Osaka lines: the historic South coast route, the scenic North coast route and the ultra-fast route straight through the middle.

But there are other consequences. As has become the standard along the Hokuriku route, the old line has immediately been sold off to a "third sector" company - largely run and subsidised by local authorities for as long as they're happy to keep the line open. Only all-stop trains are operated by these third sector companies, so there are only two options: very slow local trains, or very fast, but all the more expensive, high-speed trains. No rapids, no expresses.

The express trains which used to go to Kanazawa now all terminate early at Tsuruga, including the Thunderbirds - of course, technologically advanced Japan has more than the five Thunderbirds Gerry Anderson could muster! This display board seen in 2016 is not likely to be seen again. And if the route to Kyoto is completed, will the name disappear altogether, or continue as an omnibus Shinkansen service to Toyama? Maybe resurrect the original name Raichô (yes, similar to the Pokémon)?

Train geek notes aside, the future's hopefully bright for the region this new stretch of line serves, which was hit hard by the New Year Earthquake.

北陸新幹線おめでとうございます!

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George tiktok 2023/06/08