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I really don't think it has much to do with traditions or there's anything "old fashioned" about it. They're used for the practical advantages in certain situations: height/view, all-terrain mobility and psychological impact, especially on crowds. You'll see mounted security at music festivals, too, because they can get around the whole grounds, they can see over all the people, cars, and many of the tents, and people afford them more respect both because of sheer mass and because people just like horses. They can also move into and through a crowd more easily and safely than any vehicle. Another advantage over man-made vehicles is intelligence; a well trained horse actively participates in crowd control and can make up its own mind how to get from point A to point B to some extent.
Our closest equivalent technology would be working from the turret of a small tank, and those can have a little too strong a psych impact and eat a lot more hay.
^ Plus a horse won't step on people - cars and motorcycles show no such compassion.
no, jet packs! :cheeky:
.. or hoverdroids.
Bipedal mechs would probably be the way to go, but all of those things would be a way worse ROI than horses.
Transplanted parade rose and other pots enjoying the rain:
Spoiler for today:
Dat pollution.
Congrats man!
Place seems awesome, what is this "Rapid (light rail/subway) stations" though? Some new economic/small train?
Ahhhh.... well, tbh I would eat that butter too. At least I would have when I was a kid, haven't eaten butter by itself in a while.
But that butter just looks scrumptious.
Is that Skullcap down the bottom there?
Light rail are the kind of electric trains you find in most urban transit systems--with some exceptions, they're almost identical around the world. Around here we call the trains the Rapid (rapid transit), in Chicago it's the El (elevated tracks), in NYC it's the subway (mostly underground), in Paris the Metro...
A big part of the US economic stimulus package in 2009 went to "shovel ready" municipal projects. Around here, that mostly meant renovating the Rapid stations and putting up a couple of new ones.
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Subway is opposite of light rail, because light rail is a mix of Heavy rail (Ordinary railways, commuter trains, San Franciscos BART, Atlantas MARTA, Washington D.C:s Metro) and their opposite, streetcars (Portlands streetcar, Tacoma streetcar and many museum streetcars) - Light rail is a system capable for street running and fast speed. = Running on own private right-of-way like trains or in tunnels aswell going on ordinary street. LRT vehicles are thus bit shorter than ordinary railway cars.
Chicagos Loop, New Yorks Subway, Paris Metro, London Underground are "lighter rail" - Heavy rail built with light rail standards because high cost of tunnel building and smaller need of space. (Circa 1900)
European style light rail (Cities in France, Germany) are usually dubbed "Rapid Tram", but both names mean the same.
Metro can mean any of the above, it's just a name that was first used by Paris underground railway.
Tram means same as streetcar.
LRT systems in northern america:
Spoiler for Light rail in USA and Canada:
I won't put a list of european systems here, would be too long, but reminder, Helsinki has only ordinary trams/streetcars and heavy rail (Metro).
I stand corrected. I was just using it as a catchall term for "any transit system involving rails." Our trains are basically identical to subway trains I've been on in NYC or seen in vids of Japan, but they stay above ground most of the time, and even the "subway" stations are not so much underground as they are in the basements of large buildings (a skyscraper complex downtown and the airport).
Thanks! I didn't know. I had tradition in mind because I don't recall seeing horse cops in my country.
I think I might have something like that in my country. We have the subway trains and another smaller version of it. It goes slower than the subway train but still reasonably fast and the distance it travels is shorter. However the advantage of that is it gets to avoid the terrible road traffic during peak hours and because it travels slower, it doesn't create sound pollution so the tracks can be built right beside high rise buildings, the place where residents reside in.
Another D'Brickashaw update! D'Brickashaw the duck is almost grown up. Almost all its feathers have come in, and the tip of its tail is starting to curl up. We suspect that it is a male.
Spoiler for Pekin Duck:
As always, more duck photos to be found at my mother's blog.
I know this comment is stupid but animals grow so fast, then I look at myself. 20 years to become an adult for me and D'Brickashaw completes that in a month!
It's not a stupid comment Carrot, I thought the same thing when I saw D'Brickashaw growing and becoming independent so quickly! It's a fascinating process.
I was about to eat breakfast this morning when I opened a bag of raisins, and found this:
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...obsen/Wood.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...bsen/wood2.jpg
Wood in my raisins! :panic:
that is NOT a raisin. Wood, you are not raisin. Go back to wood.
Awww, Brickers is growing up so fast :blue:
Chris and Daisy passed out on the couch:
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/577...pingbabies.jpg
Hit da beach.
http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/m...7-02183816.jpg
ETA: I snapped my rear axle in half and shredded one of the ball bearing assemblies and who knows what else on the return trip :P Luckily I have a spare rear wheel to swap in.
I said i'll post a picture of my bag... It's definitely part of my everyday life, since i bring it with me anywhere i go :)
I have it since 5 or so years now.
http://i45.tinypic.com/353c93b.jpg
I also had a smiley pin on it, but i lost that somewhere :(
http://i48.tinypic.com/xeeiv.jpg
Firefox is missing his eyes... but that doesn't stop him in being fluffy, lol.
http://i49.tinypic.com/ip9umg.jpg
I have something similar to the thing you called firefox but mine is white in colour and its tail dropped off. :o