Passing a local bus travelling in the opposite direction, Asuncion, Paraguay

Basically all cities are the same in that they are beset with traffic jams. Over the years city populations have boomed as has the number of people driving in association with ever larger cars so how can that work in a city where roads are the same size? It doesn’t. Which is why we must redesign our cities where people don’t have to travel so far and where they use public transport. Seen on the road out of Asuncion, Paraguay in 2012, as we leave on the long distance coach for Buenos Aires. A journey that for us leaves around 6pm, maybe earlier, if I remember correctly and arrives the next day, 19 to 20 hours later. 29th February 2012.

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Paris – A vision by Anne Hidalgo

I posted this almost two years ago. A city that has only shared resources is far better for all. We need to end the “My car” culture in every town and city centre across the globe.

I’m a big fan of Paris, it’s a wonderful city, but unfortunately like so many others it’s overrun by private car ownership and use despite having a brilliant public transport system. The Champs-Élysées is a great avenue and space but for most of the time it is clogged with cars. I saw Miguel Induráin win one of his Tour de France races there in the 90s, an amazing event with it is thought a million people watching. This should give you some idea of its size.

Thankfully, Paris has a visionary mayor who wants to convert the city into a city for people and she, Anne Hidalgo, has this incredible plan for the Champs-Élysées. Other cities need to start following her and start converting such places into places for the many and not the privileged few, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pariss-champs-elysees-get-green-makeover-180976737/?fbclid=IwAR0cj53g1eVGftGgNjb-XAiGRI572mgpFub9wtz_DIgJTN74ramvlYsWpP4.

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Bus station art, Coro, Venezuela

We spent one year backpacking around the world between March the 15th 1999 and March the 15th 2000 with eight and a half months travelling around South America. The bus station at Coro was uniquely decorated although the buses that were running looked as if they were not much different to the parts hanging on the wall.

This is one of eight photographs that we made into a set of blank greeting cards. It was taken on an old Canon A1 35mm camera using slide film. The cards are available from our Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

This is the list of photographs and the images are shown below:

Glass Night – Dom Bosco church, Brasilia

Still Pink – Pantanal, Brazil

Clever Loco – Uyuni, Bolivia

Insane Chips, Roxburgh, New Zealand

Majestic Tree – Shropshire, England

Mirrored Clouds – Lake Titicaca, Peru

Green Path – Long Mynd, Shropshire

Bus Station Art – Coro, Venezuela

They will be available in different formats once we get things sorted out.

Glass night

Still Pink

Clever Loco

Insane chips, Roxburgh, South Island, New Zealand

Majestic Tree

Mirrored clouds

Green path

Bus Station Art, Venezuela

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Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Bus station art, Coro, Venezuela

We spent one year backpacking around the world between March the 15th 1999 and March the 15th 2000 with eight and a half months travelling around South America. The bus station at Coro was uniquely decorated although the buses that were running looked as if they were not much different to the parts hanging on the wall.

This is one of eight photographs that we made into a set of blank greeting cards. It was taken on an old Canon A1 35mm camera using slide film. The cards are available from our Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

This is the list of photographs and the images are shown below:

Glass Night – Dom Bosco church, Brasilia

Still Pink – Pantanal, Brazil

Clever Loco – Uyuni, Bolivia

Insane Chips, Roxburgh, New Zealand

Majestic Tree – Shropshire, England

Mirrored Clouds – Lake Titicaca, Peru

Green Path – Long Mynd, Shropshire

Bus Station Art – Coro, Venezuela

They will be available in different formats once we get things sorted out.

Glass night

Still Pink

Clever Loco

Insane chips, Roxburgh, South Island, New Zealand

Majestic Tree

Mirrored clouds

Green path

Bus Station Art, Venezuela

Our other links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Bus station art, Coro, Venezuela

We spent one year backpacking around the world between March the 15th 1999 and March the 15th 2000 with eight and a half months travelling around South America. The bus station at Coro was uniquely decorated although the buses that were running looked as if they were not much different to the parts hanging on the wall.

This is one of eight photographs that we made into a set of blank greeting cards. It was taken on an old Canon A1 35mm camera using slide film. The cards are available from our Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

This is the list of photographs and the images are shown below:

Glass Night – Dom Bosco church, Brasilia

Still Pink – Pantanal, Brazil

Clever Loco – Uyuni, Bolivia

Insane Chips, Roxburgh, New Zealand

Majestic Tree – Shropshire, England

Mirrored Clouds – Lake Titicaca, Peru

Green Path – Long Mynd, Shropshire

Bus Station Art – Coro, Venezuela

They will be available in different formats once we get things sorted out.

Glass night

Still Pink

Clever Loco

Insane chips, Roxburgh, South Island, New Zealand

Majestic Tree

Mirrored clouds

Green path

Bus Station Art, Venezuela

Our other links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Bus station art, Coro, Venezuela

We spent one year backpacking around the world between March the 15th 1999 and March the 15th 2000 with eight and a half months travelling around South America. The bus station at Coro was uniquely decorated although the buses that were running looked as if they were not much different to the parts hanging on the wall.

This is one of eight photographs that we made into a set of blank greeting cards. It was taken on an old Canon A1 35mm camera using slide film. The cards are available from our Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

This is the list of photographs and the images are shown below:

Glass Night – Dom Bosco church, Brasilia

Still Pink – Pantanal, Brazil

Clever Loco – Uyuni, Bolivia

Insane Chips, Roxburgh, New Zealand

Majestic Tree – Shropshire, England

Mirrored Clouds – Lake Titicaca, Peru

Green Path – Long Mynd, Shropshire

Bus Station Art – Coro, Venezuela

They will be available in different formats once we get things sorted out.

Glass night

Still Pink

Clever Loco

Insane chips, Roxburgh, South Island, New Zealand

Majestic Tree

Mirrored clouds

Green path

Bus Station Art, Venezuela

Our other links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

No 13 bus, Havana, Cuba

A bus waiting for passengers. 15th March 2013.

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My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

Paris – A vision by Anne Hidalgo

I posted this originally a year ago. To combat climate change and reduce our fossil fuel emissions by 50% by 2030 we are going to need many more cities to do what Paris is doing and that is to get rid of private car ownership.

14th January 2021

I’m a big fan of Paris, it’s a wonderful city, but unfortunately like so many others it’s overrun by private car ownership and use despite having a brilliant public transport system. The Champs-Élysées is a great avenue and space but for most of the time it is clogged with cars. I saw Miguel Induráin win one of his Tour de France races there in the 90s, an amazing event with it is thought a million people watching. This should give you some idea of its size.

Thankfully, Paris has a visionary mayor who wants to convert the city into a city for people and she, Anne Hidalgo, has this incredible plan for the Champs-Élysées. Other cities need to start following her and start converting such places into places for the many and not the privileged few, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pariss-champs-elysees-get-green-makeover-180976737/?fbclid=IwAR0cj53g1eVGftGgNjb-XAiGRI572mgpFub9wtz_DIgJTN74ramvlYsWpP4.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Our Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Bus station art, Coro, Venezuela

We spent one year backpacking around the world between March the 15th 1999 and March the 15th 2000 with eight and a half months travelling around South America. The bus station at Coro was uniquely decorated although the buses that were running looked as if they were not much different to the parts hanging on the wall.

This is one of eight photographs that we made into a set of blank greeting cards. It was taken on an old Canon A1 35mm camera using slide film. The cards are available from our Etsy shop, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

This is the list of photographs and the images are shown below:

Glass Night – Dom Bosco church, Brasilia

Still Pink – Pantanal, Brazil

Clever Loco – Uyuni, Bolivia

Insane Chips, Roxburgh, New Zealand

Majestic Tree – Shropshire, England

Mirrored Clouds – Lake Titicaca, Peru

Green Path – Long Mynd, Shropshire

Bus Station Art – Coro, Venezuela

They will be available in different formats once we get things sorted out.

Glass night

Still Pink

Clever Loco

Insane chips, Roxburgh, South Island, New Zealand

Majestic Tree

Mirrored clouds

Green path

Bus Station Art, Venezuela

Our other links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Time for many to ditch the privately owned car

A post I wrote about ditch the private car in the centres of our towns and cities at the very least. Paris is forging ahead with plans for the 15 minute city under the direction of Anne Hidalgo and Carlos Moreno.

May 2020

Over the last few decades our town and city centres, depending on where you live in the world have been overrun by larger, heavier and faster cars and usually very unsuited for where they are being driven. The cities have been taken over by those healthy enough and old enough to drive and not too old not to be able to drive. This has been to the detriment of everyone else in terms of their health and their safety. Take for example the British mini that rolled around London streets in the 60s, 70s and 80s and compare it to the rather larger vehicle that bears the name today. Going back the SUVs and blingmobiles of those trying to show how important they are just didn’t exist or if they did in far fewer numbers. Thankfully some forward cities are making plans to make them liveable spaces for everyone again where they become green, clean and safe for old and young, pedestrians, cyclists and all forms of public transport users. Barcelona is one such city and it is building what are called Superblocks where it joins several blocks together and only essential vehicles can enter at slow speeds Superblocks plan. In this scenario private cars still exist and are parked underground whereas for a sustainable future they will need to be replaced by shareable vehicles such as the Twizzy for short town and city journeys if not using the other forms of public transport.

 

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This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

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