Dave, Thanks for posting that. It's hard for me to see a beautiful place I've been with so much damage. It looks like the CBD was wiped out - or nearly so. Unimaginable! Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:41 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > The authorities have just started giving bus tours of the CBD where there is > still no public access, through sections where the roads are safe enough to > do so (note passengers are not allowed to leave the bus). For those who are > unable to take the tour, they've produced this video which follows the tour > route with commentary from the man in charge of demolition. > > This video is just over half an hour long. The commentary could be better: > it won't always be clear to you exactly which building he's talking about. > But you'll get the idea. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Lic4MCNek > > For me it's quite sobering to watch even after keeping up to date with photos > taken both from street level and aerially. It's also good to get some > authoritative info about some of the buildings I was uncertain about. > > I'm a mixed bag of emotions. I'm sad to have lost so much heritage, glad to > be rid of a number of eyesores, excited about the potential for > reconstruction, and worried that they'll fuck it up. My vote goes to put > Kevin McCloud in charge of the rebuild... > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
