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phoenix fotos, hot off the press OFA PS http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13430'> TWK (on a new bus) http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13431'> PHON20 (buffed) http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13433'>

Re: Re: documenting YESsssss I rode the #77 almost every day 1983-1988, and the #39 after they killed the trolleys.... remember the buses with the soft seats (7400s for the bus-spotters), totally trashed....

arizona bus insides phoenix bus -- http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13360'> heaps more in this thread on Phoenix bus insides... no trains in the city... yet... but light rail (trams, for the Euro folks) will run by 2006, they say.

documenting yepp... if nobody documents it, it's gone forever. i only wish i had a digital camera when i was riding the buses in Boston all through the 1980s. Confucius say, "We must be the change we seek in the world."

from the outside looking in ....and yes, scribes get seen from the sidewalk too... old roundey bus http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13369'> new boxey bus. equiped with cameras for what it's worth, not much obviously. http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13370'>

a few more yes freights do run for years.... but for example that FATSO scribe, and the DENIE you can see on silentwrytes... those are all years old and still running around hundreds of miles every day, being seen by thousands... as for cameras - the new buses here all have them, and they get destroyed anyway. overheard: in other words, do you think the driver checks every inch of his bus at each endstation? do you think he even compares every inch of his bus at the end of the day compared to the beginning of his routes? if not -- who can even say what day they should sit and look through twenty hours of video footage... i'm not encouraging you to go out and pose for the camera but will only say again the word of the day... camouflage ok here goes... http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13365'> http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13366'> http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13367'> http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13368'> ......if you haven't already, check out the rest of the handstyles / buses at silentwrytes

...who scribes on the bus... abandon your assumptions, actually it's middle-aged businessmen in dark blue suits and ties, hiding sandpaper and scribers in their briefcase. seriously.... you never know.

old roundeys what kind...? here's one of the old roundey phoenix buses http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13362'>

this is the photographer speaking lots of the old roundey buses... the back windows look like this in phoenix. http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13359'> http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13360'> http://www.freephoto-i.net/users/1187/13361'> ....i've plenty more fotos like that, which probably won't make it to silentwrytes website as they aren't exactly featuring any particular writer, just the general scene... anyone care for more?