RE: Abbey Road crossing webcam.
December 10, 2014 at 10:39 am
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2014 at 10:46 am by ManMachine.)
(December 10, 2014 at 10:15 am)LostLocke Wrote: I've never seen that walkway 'live' before. That looks like it's a pretty major intersection.
Has it always been like that, or is it like some streets around here that 40+ years ago was fairly quiet but got used more and more with urban sprawl?
And second question.... the zig-zagging lane lines, are those to accommodate the drunk drivers?
The camera is actually looking at the crossing from the other side, the picture for the famous album cover was taken with the photographer atop a step ladder next to the memorial (more or less centre of the image) looking back down Abbey Road towards the position of where the webcam is now. As you look at it in the webcam view the Beatles would have seen walking from right to left.
Here a brilliant montage of outtake photos, you can see one where they are lined up waiting to cross back (opposite to the album cover) stood in front of the low wall you can still see in the camera view. You can also see a photograph with traffic waiting for them to cross so yes, it's always been fairly busy.
Abbey Road Outtake Photographs
The zigzag lines mark out a prohibition zone where drivers can't stop or park at the side of the road, that's so pedestrians can clearly see vehicles coming down the road.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
