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A street car cab ride

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A street car cab ride
Posted by Mario_v on Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:15 AM

Hello all ;.

Here's a cab ride from one of hometown's steet car. In this case route 15 with modern high capacity vehicles (but traditional cars sometimes are used as reinforcments,mingling with the big ones).

Enjoy

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Posted by henry6 on Saturday, October 19, 2013 1:29 PM

Nicely done.  Enjoyed the narrow gauge, the side of the street running as often as possible, the apparent respect for the vehicle from auto drivers and pedestrians...

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Posted by BaltACD on Saturday, October 19, 2013 4:37 PM

Amazing how narrow some of the streets are and they still have two way traffic.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:57 AM

glad I visited your city.     before the modern cars were introduced     but could ride a tram to the rr station to catch a train for Madrid, and only bus or taxi is possible now

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Posted by Mario_v on Monday, October 21, 2013 6:04 AM

Henry, the respect by drivers of the 'reserved' right of way and the circulation priority is really apparent. Over here, sometimes it looks like drivers don't care about public transportation, any form of it. As for the pedestrians, when there's a vehicle that reaches 45 Mph in the vicinity and in a short sspace, nobody dares to get on its way

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Posted by Mario_v on Monday, October 21, 2013 6:15 AM

BaltACD

Amazing how narrow some of the streets are and they still have two way traffic.

For the standards of Lisbon, such streets are quite large _(and one can evem sprint in it at circa 40 Mph). The next video shows what are snarrow streets i the city (with trams in it)

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Posted by Mario_v on Monday, October 21, 2013 6:16 AM

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