AVIA Long Beach Tour
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Inn of Long Beach at Long Beach California, Hotels Downtown Long Beach CA
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2018 Long Beach State of the City Address
Mayor Robert Garcia delivered his fourth State of the City Address on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, California.
Mayor Garcia celebrated the success and progress of the last four years in economic development, investment in infrastructure and public safety, and Long Beach’s emergence as a leading City for civic tech and innovation. The Mayor also addressed ongoing challenges facing the City from housing and homelessness to climate change, and share the vision for continuing the progress the City has made in the last three years.
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How To Board The Bus and Pay
With the addition of new fare passes, riding GRTC is even easier! No matter how you pay for your fare on the bus, please first let your operator know which bus pass you want. Customers may still pay with exact cash/coin or Go Cards. Remember, bus operators and fareboxes do not make change.
Anacortes Winter Storm at Washington Park. Big Wind and Big Waves
Cold Winter Storm in Anacortes at Washington Park this past November 29th, 2014. Mid day temperature of 26 degree's / -4 C. Big Waves, Big Wind crashing against the beach. The storm only lasted a few days and then went back to being flat calm off of the Anacortes beaches.
Scenic Drive: Puyallup, WA to Seaside, OR (WA 512, I5, US101, WA 8, US12, WA107)
Drive from puyallup to seaside and cannon beach
What a USPS distribution center looks like during Christmastime
Original airdate: 12/12/2017 | BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. - If your shopping's done, it's time to ship those gifts.
69 News’ Cali Desimone got a look at the Lehigh Valley Processing and Distribution Center in Bethlehem Township where more than 3 million packages will pass through before Christmas.
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City of Long Beach Inauguration Ceremony, July 17, 2018
Long Beach, CA elected officials were sworn in at an Inauguration Ceremony held Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at the Terrace Theater Plaza. Click the links below to go directly to each oath.
Introduction, Steve Goodling, Long Beach Visitor's and Convention Bureau (00:15)
Pledge of Allegiance, Girl Scout Troop 1353 (01:45)
Tonight performed by Musical Theatre West (03:13)
Introduction of dignitaries (07:25)
Eric Garcetti, Mayor of the City of Los Angeles (09:43)
Introduction of continuing Long Beach City Council members (13:33)
Lena A. Gonzalez, Council District 1, sworn in by Austin Anderson and Jennifer Arzola (14:33)
Suzie Price, Council District 3, sworn in by former Long Beach Mayor, Beverly O'Neill (20:47)
Stacy Mungo Flanigan, Council District 5, sworn in by Scott Flanigan (29:42)
Roberto Uranga, Council District 7, sworn in by California State Senator Kevin de León (34:54)
Rex Allen Richardson, Jr., Council District 9, sworn in by Dr. Stanley K. McCrary (46:16)
Laura L. Doud, City Auditor, sworn in by former Long Beach Mayor, Beverly O'Neill (54:30)
Doug Haubert, City Prosecutor, sworn in by LA County District Attorney Jackie Lacey (01:04:10)
Charles Parkin, City Attorney, sworn in by Terese Parkin (1:12:33)
Robert Garcia, Mayor, sworn in by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (01:16:45)
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La Plata, Missouri USA - Virtual Railfan LIVE
This is a live stream of La Plata, Missouri, USA, for people who enjoy watching trains.
Actual start date: May 19, 2017
The 360º camera is sponsored by Duane & Curt Lundgren in memory of their hometown Great Northern Railroad
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La Plata, MO, in Northern Missouri, is located on BNSF Railway's Marceline Subdivision at milepost 312.7, part of their Southern Transcon, the former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) mainline between Chicago and Los Angeles.
Amtrak’s Southwest Chief passenger train stops here twice a day; the eastbound train #4 in the morning and the westbound train #3 in the evening.
The typical BNSF freight train volume is between 50 and 70 trains per 24 hours. There are 2 cameras available.
There is an ATCS layout available, as well as a radio feed for the western part of the BNSF Marceline Sub, listening to AAR road channel 30, 160.560 (also includes Norfolk Southern's Kansas City District, on road channel 22, 160.440):
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Vancouver to Portland Driving Trip
2019 October - driving trip from Vancouver to Portland.
If you drive straight (without to many stops) it will take you 5.5-6 hours.
We have actually went to Cannon Beach and then to Portland. We've stopped in Olympia (Capital of Washington state), in Mt St Helens Visitor Center (beautiful spot in the nature), Astoria (amazing town by the ocean) , spent 2 nights in Cannon Beach (one of the most beautiful 100 places on Earth - look it up if you don't believe me) and Portland.
Videos to fallow from above places.
SW Washington Leadership Protests Department of Ecology- Olympia, WA - NorthWest Digital News
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Our studio is located at 1323 14th Avenue in the heart of Longview Washington. Longview is a city in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States. It is the principal city of the Longview, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Cowlitz County. Longview's population was 36,648 at the time of the 2010 census and it is the largest city in Cowlitz County. The city is located in southwestern Washington, at the junction of the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers. Longview shares a border with Kelso to the east, which is the county seat.
The Cowlitz Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribe of Cowlitz people, is headquartered in Longview.
The Long-Bell Lumber Company, led by Robert A. Long, decided in 1918 to buy a great expanse of timberland in Cowlitz County. A total of 14,000 workers were needed to run the two large mills as well as lumber camps that were planned. The number of workers needed was more than a lumber town, or the nearest town, could provide. Long planned and built a complete city in 1921 that could support a population of up to 50,000 and provide labor for the mills as well as attracting other industries.
Longview was officially incorporated on February 14, 1924. At the time of its conception, Longview was the only planned city of its magnitude to have ever been conceived of and built entirely with private funds. A number of prominent buildings in Longview were purchased with R. A. Long's personal funds, including R. A. Long High School, the Longview Public Library, the YMCA building and the Monticello Hotel.
What is the Best Light Rail System in the United States?
The United States has over 20 cities across the nation that have a light rail system: Which one is your favorite and why?
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This video focuses on lightrails and not on streetcars or trams - there is a debate on what the differences are (what is your definition of lightrail? Did I include the correct systems in the United States).
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I excluded streetcars/trams and light rails in Canada/Mexico because it would have made the video too long.
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In some light rail systems, the system operates regionally across multiple cities and jurisdictions; however, the biggest city was identified that the lightrail serves and highlighted in this video (for ex: riverline is Trenton, NJ).
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The real reason streetcars are making a comeback
It’s mostly about economic development.
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Starting in the late 20th century, modern streetcar proposals started rippling across municipalities in the United States. They’re touted as infrastructure carrying benefits ranging from the social to economic and the environmental. But these projects often make appearances in the news as costly, blunder-filled experiments in public policy.
Cities are willing to bet big on this technology for its potential to develop the local economy. But there is some disagreement as to whether the streetcar is driving this progress, or if it is simply the result of planning *around* the streetcar.
If you're looking for more information on public transportation and urban planning, here are a few links:
This interactive map by Yonah Freemark and Steven Vance allows you to zoom in on all public transportation projects across North America.
This paper by Randal O'Toole of the CATO institute looks closely at the policy winds that drives streetcar proposals.
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For a view of local opinions on the BQX, you can check out this documentary.
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Driving Downtown - Tacoma 4K - USA
Driving Downtown - Tacoma Washington USA - Season 1 Episode 20.
Starting Point: Court St .
Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.[6] The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to the 2010 census.[7] Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of around 1 million people.
Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Takhoma or Tahoma. It is locally known as the City of Destiny because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma's neighboring deep-water harbor, Commencement Bay. By connecting the bay with the railroad, Tacoma's motto became When rails meet sails. Today, Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of international trade on the Pacific Coast and Washington State's largest port.
Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a prolonged decline in the mid-20th century as a result of suburbanization and divestment. Since the 1990s, developments in the downtown core include the University of Washington Tacoma; Tacoma Link, the first modern electric light rail service in the state; the state's highest density of art and history museums; and a restored urban waterfront, the Thea Foss Waterway. Neighborhoods such as the 6th Avenue District have become revitalized.
Tacoma-Pierce County has been named one of the most livable areas in the United States.[8] In 2006, Tacoma was listed as one of the most walkable cities in the country.[9] That same year, the women's magazine Self named Tacoma the Most Sexually Healthy City in the United States.[10] In contrast, Tacoma was also ranked as the most stressed-out city in the country in a 2004 survey.[11]
Tacoma gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname Galloping Gertie.
Alabama
Visit Alabama! Learn about this state and its history - with a focus on the civil rights struggle - in the latest addition to our video series about the U.S. states; presented by Jennifer Hall Godfrey, Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Austria. #50states #AL
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Hello. I'm Jennifer Hall Godfrey, the Public Affairs Officer at the United States Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Austria. I'm happy to introduce you to the state of Alabama.
Like many of our states, the name Alabama comes from the name of a local Native American tribe. It is a beautiful state. Peach and pecan trees, and blackberry bushes, grow wild in Alabama's fields of rich soil and red clay. The state's chicken, cattle, cotton, and soybean farms provide work for many. Hunting and fishing are popular pastimes, and Alabama's coastline along the Gulf of Mexico has beautiful sandy beaches and emerald waters, making it a popular vacation spot.
Alabama has a significant history in the United States Civil War. During that war, Alabama was one of the original seven states of the Deep South to secede from the Union. Montgomery became the capital of the Confederate States of America, and Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, resided there.
Long after the South lost the Civil War, racial tensions remained high in the United States, into the mid-20th century, including in Alabama. In 1955, an African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white passenger. This act of civil disobedience was the spark for what became known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, during which African Americans refused to ride public buses. The boycott lasted more than a year and hurt the city transit system financially. It ended in 1956, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the decision of a Montgomery federal court to strike Alabama's bus segregation laws.
A pastor at a Montgomery church, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a leader in the boycott. He went on, of course, to play a prominent role in the civil rights movement. The attention he brought to segregation, including his famous I Have a Dream speech, lead to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women.
Even so, many African American voters were still unable to register to vote. In 1965, Dr. King led a march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery to draw attention to the issue. Alabama state police held the marchers back at Selma, using whips, night sticks, and tear gas. The TV coverage of the violence outraged many Americans, and President Lyndon Johnson sent U.S. army troops and the Alabama National Guard to protect the protestors. The 2,000 men and women participating in the march were joined in Montgomery by 50,000 supporters gathered at the capitol to hear King speak. No tide of racism can stop us, he said.
As a result of the march, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which banned literacy tests and other requirements that had been used to prevent African Americans from voting. While Alabama's motto -- We Dare Defend Our Rights -- was chosen before the civil rights movement reached its apex, it became all the more meaningful for Alabama because of the civil rights movement.
Alabama today is home to a diverse population of almost 5 million with a wide variety of interests. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is one of the largest in the world, with more than 400 performances a year.
Montgomery's Museum of Fine Arts houses paintings by Zelda Fitzgerald, who grew up in Montgomery. Huntsville is home to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center and the visitor center for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Tuskegee hosts the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, the training facility for the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. And Monroeville is the birthplace of two great 20th-century American authors, Truman Capote and Harper Lee. Every year Monroeville hosts a performance of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's Southern Gothic classic story.
In Alabama you can visit Mobile, the birthplace of baseball great Hank Aaron. Or take in an American football game and enjoy the historic competition between Alabama's two biggest universities, the University of Alabama and Auburn University.
In Alabama's largest city, Birmingham, you can visit Vulcan, the largest cast iron statue in the world, which honors the city's history in the iron and steel industry. Birmingham is also home to the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, where you can learn about legendary jazz greats with Alabama ties, including Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, and Erskine Hawkins.
I hope you've enjoyed learning a little bit about Alabama. From history to sports, science and technology to the arts, farming to fishing on the Gulf Shores, Alabama is a remarkable state.
Portland Oregon to Vancouver BC by train-#2: Columbia River to Mount Rainier 2015-06-08
Amtrak Cascades train from Portland Oregon continues north along the Columbia River to Kelso, Washington, and then through rural southwestern Washington to state-capital Olympia at the foot of Washington's Mount Rainier.
0:10 Leaving Vancouver, Washington station
10:10-12:55 Along section paralleling Interstate 5 near Kalama, Washington
13;43- 13:52 Looking southwest at Oregon across the Columbia River near Kalama, Washington
13:53-15:00 Along section paralleling Interstate 5 near Kalama, Washington
19:15-20:00 Stopping at Kelso / Longview, Washington
20:00 Leaving Kelso / Longview, Washington
27:30 Stopping at Centralia, Washington
29:12-29:55 Mount Rainier
30:40 Arriving at Olympia-Lacey, Washington
Kelso is a city in southwest Washington State, United States, and is the county seat of Cowlitz County.[5] At the 2010 census, the population was 11,925. Kelso is part of the Longview, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 102,410. Kelso shares its long western border with Longview. It is near Mount St. Helens.
On May 18, 1980, being only 24 miles (39 km) away, Kelso residents experienced the shock wave caused by the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Called the largest volcanic eruption in historic times in the contiguous United States, Kelso received large amounts of volcanic ash through the air and from the massive mudflow caused by the eruption transported by the Toutle and Cowlitz Rivers. Many areas of the city, including the Three Rivers Golf Course are built on volcanic ash dredged from the Cowlitz River by inmates in state custody and volunteers.
Olympia is the capital of the State of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was documented as 46,478 in the 2010 census. The city borders Lacey, to the east, and Tumwater to the south. Olympia is a major cultural center of the Puget Sound region. Olympia is located 60 miles (100 km) from Seattle, the largest city in the state of Washington.
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Seattle is Dying
KOMO's Eric Johnson explores the impact the drug and homelessness problem is having on our city and possible solutions in Seattle is Dying.
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Alki Beach - Seattle, Washington, United States
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Alki Beach Seattle
Beach made famous in a scene from the movie Sleepless in Seattle where Tom Hanks flies a kite with his son.
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- ... Coffee at Alki Beach on a weekday morning, driving by houseboats and guessing their price, and a cheap late night movie (I love ...
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- ... The following day was an absolute scorcher so I took the water taxi across to West Seattle and went to Alki Beach accompanied by my MP3 player and a good book The beach is about a 2 mile walk from the ...
- ... So, as we still had the car we went to Alki beach, which has a nice little seaside town feel ...
- ... We had a quick drive down to Alki Beach and a walk around - spotting the Space Needle and downtown Seattle just across the bay ...
- ... Having had a brief opportunity to explore today we have taken a water taxi across the sound to Alki beach (a suitable name eh), familiarised ourselves with the down town area and witnessed the famous Pike Fish Market! We are off to ...
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- Space Needle and Ferry from Alki Beach by Carldombek from a blog titled Seattle and Puget Sound
- Dog takes the plunge at Alki beach by Nancydeb from a blog titled Speechless in Seattle
- Alki Beach, Seattle Birthplace by Burtonll from a blog titled Birthplace of Seattle
- Alki Beach by Wanderingblonde from a blog titled Eating Good in the Emerald City
- Alki Beach by Arlie from a blog titled Sleepless in C@L
- Alki beach by Trippintay from a blog titled MontLake
- Alki beach by Lilach from a blog titled Alki beach , Space needle and Museum of science
LA Metro Red Line Elevated Extension to the 105 Ⓜ️ Future Transit USA
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LA Metro’s proposal to extend the red line subway from Wilshire Blvd south down Vermont Ave all the way to the Metro green line could completely transform public transportation in South Los Angeles for the better.
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KPCC: Metro explores P3 to speed up Vermont Ave transit
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New York on Lock Down! Hurricane Sandy! Mandatory Evacuation!
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Sunday ordered the evacuation of 375 000 people in low-lying areas threatened by Hurricane Sandy. This is a serious and dangerous storm, Bloomberg told a news conference as he ordered the mandatory evacuation ahead of the storm which is expected to start hitting on Monday. Airlines have cancelled hundreds of flights into airports along the US east coast ahead of the arrival of a major storm, authorities said Sunday. Air France cancelled all flights into New York and Washington on Monday while US airlines have called off hundreds of domestic flights. New York airports were to stay open on Sunday but the airport authority warned passengers to expect disruptions. New York authorities ordered the subway, commuter trains and buses to close on Sunday ahead of the arrival of a feared super-storm. The New York subway and regional buses will stop from 7pm state governor Mario Cuomo announced as he warned that the impending storm was not something to be taken lightly. Frankenstorm Hurricane Sandy shadowed the east coast of the United States on Sunday, raking the Carolinas with stinging rains and high waves as authorities braced for the potentially devastating Frankenstorm days before the US elections. The looming superstorm played havoc with the US presidential race, with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both cancelling campaign events and scrambling to rearrange schedules with the November 6 polls just nine days away. President Barack Obama moved up a campaign trip to Florida Sunday so he could be back in Washington when the storm makes landfall, predicted for early Tuesday somewhere between Virginia and Massachusetts. At 1200 GMT, the storm was 420 kilometers southeast of Cape Hateras, North Carolina, packing sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. Sandy earlier claimed at least 66 lives in the Caribbean, most of them in impoverished, quake-ravaged Haiti where 51 people were reported killed. Though still far out at sea, the storm was already making its presence felt on US territory, spinning off high winds and seas for hundreds of miles around. Television images from North Carolina's Outerbanks, a chain of low lying barrier islands, showed wild surf and pelting wind-driven rains that offered a foretaste of conditions to come further north. The National Hurricane Centre (NHC) warned residents to expect life-threatening storm surge flooding to the Mid-Atlantic coast, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbour. At the National Weather Service, forecasters warned the storm would result in significant impacts along coastal North Carolina beginning late Saturday. Current projections show the storm making landfall early Tuesday on the coast of Delaware at near hurricane strength, then bending north and inland as it merges with a cold front descending from Canada. Weather experts say that collision of a rain-laden tropical storm with a cold front is an explosive mix, creating a super-charged weather system bringing floods, high winds and even heavy snow across a swath of eastern states and as far inland as Ohio. Nor'easter on steroids Anticipating the worst, governors declared states of emergency in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the US capital Washington and a coastal county in North Carolina. This is a large storm that is forecasted to impact the Mid-Atlantic and other parts of the East Coast with strong winds, coastal flooding, inland flooding, rain and snow, said Craig Fugate, head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency. Sandy will be more like a large nor'easter on steroids, wrote Alex Sosnowski, a senior meteorologist for Accuweather.com, who said it could lead to billions of dollars in damage. In Delaware, Governor Jack Markell issued an evacuation order, urging coastal residents and those in flood-prone areas to leave their homes and to stay safe. Please take this evacuation order seriously. It will help save lives of both residents and first responders, he said in a message on Twitter. New Jersey also ordered evacuations for its southern coastline, including Cape May and Atlantic counties and Long Beach Island. The governor also ordered all gambling shut down in beach-side Atlantic City starting at 3pm on Sunday. Tolls were suspended on the northbound and westbound lanes of the state's major highways to help residents leave more quickly. -- Sapa-AFP and Reuters.