The first day of each month is a theme day for members of City Daily Photo. For February, that theme is Motors. Check out how other people are interpreting this theme right here.
I start with something unlikely, an escalator, but of course these have motors operating them. This one descends deep into the underground LRT Rideau station downtown. The platform is 26 and a half meters below the surface, and this escalator is the longest in the country, at 35.3 meters. I took this shot in late December.
One day in early January I was passing through the courtyards of the Byward Market and noticed this car parked, its owner elsewhere. The contrast with the old wall and the mounted photographs appealed to me. The photographs are called Dodge Away, by Kan Azuma.
Another LRT station in the downtown core, with an incoming train, which has a motor of its own. The LRT system in the city has been something of a debacle for years, sufficed to say.
This one's from the archives, taken in the summer of 2018. This is the ugliest car in the city, and it's still around, and even more decorated these days. Though one does not see it over the winter, so it must be stored away. I saw it last in October or November out and about, lit up. I've long said that when the owner decides to get rid of it, he'll have to pay someone several thousand dollars to take it off his hands. This was taken in the Byward Market.
I was out in Nepean one January day running errands. I got off a bus and saw this pick up truck with multiple bumper stickers. This one got a laugh out of me. Do Transformers have motors?
Another look at LRT trains in the tunnels beneath the core. I got on this one, and took the second shot when I got off.
On another January day, I was at Lansdowne Park during a snowfall. Several emergency vehicles were parked in given areas. No emergency- a hockey game was on that day, with a first responders theme, hence the vehicles. There were set-ups inside for paramedics, firefighters, and police.
