2016

TQ2682 : Slow, slow, quick, quick, slower (139)

taken 8 years ago, near to Marylebone, Westminster, England

Slow, slow, quick, quick, slower (139)
Slow, slow, quick, quick, slower (139)
Zebra crossing just before the junction of Penfold and Boscombe Streets
Venice, vidi, vici

In which I start out amidst hustle and bustle in the heart of the West End, weave through Bayswater, up to Brownings Pool then through the Fisherton Estate, down into Marylebone past some inebriated Evertonians "oop for the cup" and back to Marble Arch.

Zebras, Pandas, Pelicans and Toucans

In 1934 transport minister Leslie Hore-Belisha introduced the iconic zebra crossing with its eponymous beacons. With the advent of faster and faster roads came the Panda with its triangular black and white pattern. Next came one for cyclists and pedestrians because "two can" cross and then the PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled Crossing. Believe it or not there is also one for horses- the pegasus. One for cows hurrying to be milked, the Moove, was abandoned at the prototype stage...


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TQ2682, 708 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Basher Eyre   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 23 April, 2016   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 29 April, 2016
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 2687 8208 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:31.4036N 0:10.3607W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 2686 8208
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South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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