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Abbey Road crossing webcam.
December 10, 2014 at 7:47 am
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The live-feed camera trained on the zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Recording Studios in London, made famous by The Beatles. Watch dumb-ass tourists risk their lives with the London traffic trying to capture that replica 'Album Cover' shot. It's often fun and occasionally hilarious.
Abbey Road Crossing Cam
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And what happens when it goes wrong... (the accident victim fully recovered)
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RE: Abbey Road crossing webcam.
December 10, 2014 at 8:36 am
Was it a hit and run? The van that hit her left the scene but maybe it just pulled over. At least other people stopped to help her.
Right before the woman runs into the crosswalk, another group used it safely. Why didn't the victim wait? She could have still recreated the Abbey Road crossing and been safe if she had just waited a few minutes.
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RE: Abbey Road crossing webcam.
December 10, 2014 at 8:47 am
(December 10, 2014 at 8:36 am)Nope Wrote: Was it a hit and run? The van that hit her left the scene but maybe it just pulled over. At least other people stopped to help her.
Right before the woman runs into the crosswalk, another group used it safely. Why didn't the victim wait? She could have still recreated the Abbey Road crossing and been safe if she had just waited a few minutes.
The car stopped just out of camera shot.
"Despite many thinking the driver of the vehicle fled the scene, according to staff at the recording studio, they pulled over to help." - Liverpool Echo
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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)
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RE: Abbey Road crossing webcam.
December 10, 2014 at 9:50 am
She got some impressive air there.
But seriously, you're entering a zone where big metal boxes are coming at you at (near) fatal speeds. Maybe take a look around first, love.
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RE: Abbey Road crossing webcam.
December 10, 2014 at 10:39 am
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(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.
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"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"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)
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