Median strip

I can imagine, too, on probably less overcast days you can see for dozens of kilometers.

Anyway, after departing Pittsburgh Bay Point Transfer, EBART runs exclusively in a highway median for the entire length of its revenue run.

This is not exactly the most overwhelmingly scenic DMU that I have encountered, but I do kind of like the paint job.

Because this is all a highway, I actually ended up traipsing through a few homeless encampments.

Say that for ridership reasons only half of the trains continued from Pittsburgh Center, what the center turnback track allows is for DMUs to get off the main line, pause for a few moments, and then reverse direction in order to have a short turn.

Again, even though they are not very common on DMU systems, they are generally very important and rather common on most forms of rail transit.

Traveling along a little further, I was able to get, of course, the obligatory picture of my bicycle with a DMU in the background, and then the DMU just traveled through even more highway medians.

But I did notice something over the course of the day that I believe is actually the first time anything like this has ever been done in the United States as far as DMU goes.

Blog entry of December 3rd, 2006.

7.30am this morning on the M25, aquaplaned into the Central Reservation barrier, bounced off, careered across three lanes, swerved to avoid a lorry, skidded back into the Central Reservation barrier where the car finally stops.

got out, ran across the motorway to the hard shoulder, where I did a little jig because I was still alive.

Not a scratch on me, no other vehicles involved, on set within the hour, and a newfound respect for life and an arrogant belief in my own charmed immortality.

Okay.

My question is, So Median Strip from Waldorf Nursery on Carinap Road right there to Alexander Drive on Morley Drive has got a number of dead trees that have been dead for a long, long time.

I'm just wondering why aren't they removed? They just keep dropping dead debris on the road.

They're not going to get any greener.

There are a lot of big trees, actually, because I drive down there a bit.

My nonna lives near there.

There are a lot of big trees on that median strip.

Yeah, there are, and we always try and retain them where we can, and that's why, and again, I'm struggling with the timeframe, Jamie, but it was rather recently, or my memory, it could have been last year, but yeah, it did come back saying, no, the trees are healthy, there was some minor pruning required.