Change of Plan
fbb's intention was to look at some if the impressive stations on the Wuhan Metro as part if a Saturday Variety blog. He would also cast a glance at Wuhan's other rail-based transport modes.
As material was garnered, it began to appear that most of these aims could be better served by a couple of postings about one area of the City where all these ideas come together.
The challenges of a mandarin still remain!
Optics Valley?
London has Docklands, a recent agglomeration of businesses and residential joined to the historic centre of the Capital by new transport links.
Docklands has become a community in its own right, a city within the City!
Likewise Paris has La Defense.
Again it has excellent transport links, arguably better than in London.
In the modern city of Wuhan (China), massive sub-cities proliferate, one of which is Optics Valley, sometimes labelled Optical Valley.
It is not just a concentration of Wuhan's technology businesses; it has Universities, residential blocks, shopping malls, leisure facilities and food outlets. Here, we marvel at the somwhat perverse entrance to one of the Valley's "Food Streets".
Quaint!
There is also a significant night time economy.
It is truly a city within the City.
And it has one of these!
It is a focus feature, a piece of urban artwork, that symbolises the pulsating heart of the community.
Probably!
It also has one of these ...
... and lots of bright lights!
And near the huge wibbly wobbly "thing" on the ccentral Optics Valley Square that is a roundabout, you would find entrances to two lines of the Wuhan Metro.
The two lines intersect thrice in the Optics Valley, with both serving the Wuhandong Railway Station.
Of course it is impressive, inside and out!
Metro
Line 2 arrived in 2012 ...... followed by a section of Line 11 ...... which opened in October 2018.
Both Metro lines serve the station at the central Square ...
... where entrances are marked with the familiar totems.
Most pictures from the bowels of that station show the pink line 2 facilities, but we can appreciate the design (and scrupulous cleanliness) of the central Square Metro station.We have lifts ....... as well as escalators.
There are some impressive art works ...... in th3 form of an ever changung light display ... ... and some very large computer keys ...... as befits a suburb-city focussed on technology.
They are seats!Very neat! But possibly very cold on fbb's ample but delicate posterior!
There are two more transport modes of interest (apart from buses) in Optics Valley, of which more tomorrow.
Variety blogs will follow next week.
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For the next few days, in a snippet on each blog, fbb will outline the possible reasons, the experiences and the possible consequences of the last week or so. The squeamish or hospital phobic should not read this diary!
EIGHT DAYS INSIDE (Saturday 30th May)
After Friday's explosive repeat, ward staff were even more dedicated in their task of collecting data of blood pressure, red blood count and temperature. It was every hour or two hours throughout Friday night and Saturday early morning.
There were several ("just a slight scratch") blood tests.
Blood pressure was down, blood count was down. Worrying, but not surprising when your body is eating a blood leak!
Consultant Dr Rogers decided to do another endoscopy in case the leak was hiding within the delicate folds of the intestine wall.Gross?
It wasn't; the Endoscope had, again, found no signs of bleeding!
Curiouser and curiouser?
No 1 Son arrived from Wantage bringing Mrs fbb from Seaton; just before fbb was trundled off to the throat and hosepipe event. They waited patiently till his return.
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