CRD History Series: Are We Getting Dumber? Traditional Geocache
CRD History Series: Are We Getting Dumber?
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You are looking for a brass nano, painted dark brown, in a tree. The hide is considerably more difficult now so I have given an explicit hint so I don't have to change the difficulty rating. BYOP.
I have taken a great interest in Victoria's history in the last couple of years and I have noticed many dumb things that we are doing today that people 100 years ago were actually doing right!
Victoria's Streetcars
Where you are standing in Midland Circle is the original terminus for one of the branches of Victoria's electric streetcar system. Constructed in 1890 by the BC Electric Co., Victoria was the third city in Canada to have a transit system made entirely of electric streetcars. The system was gradually added to with a line going to the Royal Jubilee Hospital and CFB Esquimalt. Despite occasional derailments and a few collisions with automobiles, the BCER ran a safe and efficient urban transit system. By 1904, it was operating twenty-four streetcars at fifteen minute intervals. In 1912, it carried approximately eleven million passengers from all points in Victoria. Unfortunately in 1948, the tracks were torn up and the system was lost forever in favour of gasoline powered buses. Green, clean and efficient streetcars sure would be nice today!
Go to the south edge of the circle and look at the outer edge of the road. You can actually see the old tracks in the grass and buried by pavement!
The Past
The Future?
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Zvpeb va n ynetr penpx ng gur fnja-bss znwbe oenapu, nobhg 6' 6" nobir tebhaq yriry. Snpvat zber be yrff njnl sebz genssvp!