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Post by John Farrell on Sept 5, 2023 6:37:13 GMT
My wife had her U3A meeting this morning, so I dropped her off, parked the car in town, and took a camera for a stroll.  The Lone Star bar.  The footpath, George St - the roadway has been excavated, and all the services are being replaced.  Looking down one of the alleyways off George St to the back of the Medical School. |
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 5, 2023 6:43:58 GMT
 I stopped for coffee at The Good Oil - where some of the road workers were buying their morning tea.  This is part of the bus hub, with First Church spire in the background.  Forty or so years ago, I spent some months installing a telephone exchange in the ground floor of this older hospital building - the space is now a cafe. |
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 5, 2023 6:48:17 GMT
 Part of the "new" hospital building, opened 50 years ago. A replacement hospital is being built a few blocks away.  The Conscientious Objectors memorial, at the top of Albany Street. Above the garden is one of Dunedin's pedestrian zig zags - the street is too steep for traffic. |
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Post by peterba on Sept 5, 2023 6:50:03 GMT
The footpath, George St - the roadway has been excavated, and all the services are being replaced.
You mean, your highways are..... <gasp>..... actually MAINTAINED?!!
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 5, 2023 6:51:33 GMT
The footpath, George St - the roadway has been excavated, and all the services are being replaced.
You mean, your highways are..... <gasp>..... actually MAINTAINED?!!
It isn't a highway - that is two blocks to the east. The City Council looks after this road. |
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Post by peterba on Sept 5, 2023 7:01:28 GMT
It isn't a highway - that is two blocks to the east. The City Council looks after this road.
Mea culpa, John. it's a hangover from my time working in Highway Engineering, where we habitually used the term 'highway' to talk about any road - not just major roads.
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Post by kate on Sept 5, 2023 7:24:33 GMT
Thank you John. Great to look around the place. A question from me. What is U3A? Anyway, good to see such a tidy place and being maintained too. Interesting to hear the 50 year old hospital needs replacing. Hmm. Concrete trouble? Or simply tired and getting not fit for purpose?
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Post by peterba on Sept 5, 2023 7:45:08 GMT
University of the Third Age. See here.  |
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 5, 2023 7:47:24 GMT
Thank you John. Great to look around the place. A question from me. What is U3A? Anyway, good to see such a tidy place and being maintained too. Interesting to hear the 50 year old hospital needs replacing. Hmm. Concrete trouble? Or simply tired and getting not fit for purpose? University of the Third Age. The older parts of the hospital date to the 1930s, and there is one block from the 1960s. The whole thing is seen as not suited to modern medical practise, and some of the buildings contain asbestos. The new hospital has two blocks - outpatient services, and the inpatient block. |
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Post by kate on Sept 5, 2023 8:37:46 GMT
University of the Third Age. See here. Great idea. Wish I had one to go to. |
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Post by JohnY on Sept 10, 2023 10:15:09 GMT
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