PDP #215: The High Sweep of the Highway

It's no surprise that highways captured the public imagination, even nonwithstanding one of history's greatest memetic engineering campaigns. Beyond the sheer attraction of a wide, straight roadway with no traffic lights to slow you down, even the architecture can evoke a grand, sweeping, elevating aesthetic. After all, half of car culture is selling the dream of freedom, and convincing people that once they become drivers they're "above it all." That's the feeling I got from what's photographed below, Highway 403 looking north from King Street West in Hamilton.

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PDP #208: The Gates of the Village

Yesterday was a nice day, far more pleasant than the weather forecasts had suggested, so I took advantage to go out venturing. Off of King Street West I took a quick northern detour and went through the brick streets of Hess Village - made possible because I was, in actuality, in Hamilton and not Toronto. It's rather smaller than comparable entertainment districts in Toronto, but understandably so; Hamilton's got a somewhat smaller population than old Toronto itself, let alone the rest of Metro. It was rather quiet, too. Maybe going to Hamilton for the first time on a Sunday gave me a bit of a skewed view.

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