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The Present => Beyond the Beltway => Topic started by: WMATAGMOAGH on June 29, 2011, 06:02:09 PM

Title: PHOTOS: Something Very Old, Something Very New
Post by: WMATAGMOAGH on June 29, 2011, 06:02:09 PM
Unfortunately, the outing that I was supposed to go on tomorrow which included a ride on the light rail here in Jerusalem (still officially scheduled to open in August but unlikely to open until October from what I'm hearing) got canceled due to a strike by the operators that they timed to coincide with this outing, so the photos I thought I was going to be able to share this week that I alluded to in another post aren't going to be taken, at least not yet.  However, I did wind up along the part of the line that runs along the Old City walls this afternoon and finally got some photos of that section.


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I'm afraid cars blocking the box and train crossings is going to be a common occurrence up and down the line.  I heard the trains use their horns (in addition to their bells) a few times today due to people blocking the tracks, either with their cars or just pedestrians.  The horn sounds more like a car horn than anything else.
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And here is one last shot from the section where the ROW runs in the middle of the highway heading north away from the Old City and Downtown.
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