There are still barrel cactus flowers on campus -- mostly rather pleasantly yellow-orange ones. I'm still adapting to the warmth and brightness, and not adapting particularly well to the timezone. By this stage in September, the edge is starting to come off the summer heat, and mornings and evenings can be quite pleasant.
The skeleton of the old hospital next to my apartment complex has still not disappeared, but there's now a nice picture on the fence, illustrating what is supposed to be there by next summer. That also appears to be a two-storey building, so maybe they're going to reuse the old framework, but it seems unlikely around here, where buildings are knocked down far more often than they are reused.
It turns out that the Tucson bus system, which I usually describe as rudimentary, has won a national award in the 4-30 million rides/year class. That isn't all that many in a city of somewhere well over half a million. Still, the buses are in reasonably good shape, with three wheelchair and two bicycle spaces each, the drivers are friendly, and the service is mostly reliable.
( Computer blatherings )
The skeleton of the old hospital next to my apartment complex has still not disappeared, but there's now a nice picture on the fence, illustrating what is supposed to be there by next summer. That also appears to be a two-storey building, so maybe they're going to reuse the old framework, but it seems unlikely around here, where buildings are knocked down far more often than they are reused.
It turns out that the Tucson bus system, which I usually describe as rudimentary, has won a national award in the 4-30 million rides/year class. That isn't all that many in a city of somewhere well over half a million. Still, the buses are in reasonably good shape, with three wheelchair and two bicycle spaces each, the drivers are friendly, and the service is mostly reliable.
( Computer blatherings )