Welcome to the blog and Photo a Day of Arel English. Relax and enjoy!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Photo a Whenever: Photo 124. This is a picture of the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) 7 train Flushing Line elevated track at Court Square in Queens, NY.
The NYC subway system was built by three different companies, the IRT, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND), which was run by the city. Because the subway system was built by competing companies, they didn’t build transfers between their lines, and would even go out of their way to make it difficult to transfer or for the other company to build competing service.
Where this picture is taken, there is also underground service from two IND lines, serving three other trains, the G, E, and M. It wasn’t until June 3rd 2011 that a transfer was built between the IRT 7 line and the IND G,E, and M lines even though the stations are right above one another.
Photo a Whenever: Photo 123. This photo was taken the second day of the siggi’s / NYVelocity Racing training camp in Southern California. While descending, I took a corner to fast/ with the wrong approach and ate it right into that dirt right there. I wasn’t injured, just scrapped up, so was able to ride the rest of the ride no problem.
Fun fact: I when I first went to take a drink of water after the crash, I ended up getting a mouth full of dirt instead of water.
Photo credit: Jayson Pugh
Photo a Whenever: photo 122. This photo was taken from the top of our highest climb during the Siggi’s cycling training camp in Southern California. I believe we were at the highest point we could ride our bicycles to in the surrounding mountains. The road we descended is called Mulholland highway, but the decent I’m told is called Rock Store, and is named after a well known biker restaurant at the bottom. Biker as in motorcycle. The GPS data attached to this photo tells me that I’m at the top of Stunt road. The view is looking east. If you looked west you could see the ocean. The climb was challenging to say the least
Photo a Day: Photo 121. Venice Beach at sunset. Venice Beach is names after Venice Italy, and was built/ founded as Venice of America in 1905. Venice Beach became a neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1926 after it was annexed.
Photo a Day: Day 108. I’m thinking about stopping my photo a day today. I’m pretty bored with it.
Photo a Day: Day 107. I rode my bike to Coney Island in Brooklyn, Ny.
Photo a Day: Day 106.
Photo a Day: Day 105. $2000 for idling!
Photo a Day: Day 103. One World Trade Center. Coming along nicely.
Photo a Day: Day 102. The walk sign broke off! Now I can’t cross the street.
