Silver Spring Transit Center, More Photos

I'm back in town and I managed to take several photos of the Silver Spring Transit Center-to-be this morning. Lots of digging in the dirt and trucks going back and forth. It's still a big hole in the ground, but most of the grass is gone from the slopes and there does seem to be a lot of activity. Which is more than I can say for the various municipal and county websites that are supposed to be keeping us current on this project.

I somehow missed an October posting from the Silver Spring Penguin that goes into some detail on the toxic petrochemicals and naturally occurring asbestos that had to be dealt with during excavation.

Here's a November 11 blog posting with some interesting info on how the Purple Line fits into the whole scheme of things.

Silver Spring Transit Center photo blog hiatus

I won't be able to take my weekly photos of the Silver Spring Transit Center/mud hole for the next couple of weeks. My intention is to take this back up at the end of the month. In the meantime, please feel free to post a link to your own photos in the comments section.

Silver Spring Transit Center Weekly Update

This week's update on the Silver Spring Transit Center:
Photos above taken Monday, November 2, 2009, about 8:45 AM

Ground breaking for the project: September 2008

YouTube poster obs3rv3r has an updated video, dated November 2, 2009. This appears to be a series of still pictures showing a couple of earth movers doing...well, something.

Montgomery County's project web page,still has Update #20 on its Status link, last updated March 16, 2009

Silver Spring Transit Center, still has one entry and one photo, last updated March 8, 2009

Silver Spring Downtown, still has the same posting with artist's conceptions of how the finished product will look, and the verbiage about starting the project is still in the future tense.

The Silver Spring Gazette's article of October 21 is still the most recent, and by far the most helpful information. A search of their website turns up nothing newer than this.

More pix

Carlsbad NM, looking across the Pecos River from a little park
just west of Landsun Homes, where Mom lives.

Prickly pear cactus.

This aqueduct was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1939.
It spans the Pecos River and Westridge Road (foreground)
on the northern edge of Carlsbad.

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Pictures!

I finally figured out how to get Picasaweb linked to iPhoto on my Mac! (Not that it was all that difficult, but I'm new at this.)
So now I have photos to go with my travel journal. Here's the link:
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I will be uploading more photos as I update the travel journal. Enjoy!