Friday, April 25, 2008

Great Place for a Gas Station

I made a similar post in July 2006, about a gas station on the ground floor of an apartment building in Paris. This is probably equally as bad. A gas station right next to a residential building. I hope no one there is drinking the tap. A real environmental issue and Al Gore is nowhere to be found. He's still on the trail of Manbearpig. This is also a good time to point out that what we call "gas" others call "gasoline", and what others call "gas" we call "natural gas". For further complication, "diesel" in Hebrew is pronounced "solar" which had me wondering where the taxi's solar panels were.

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Walk Thru Fast Food

A McDonald's in Haifa would have a hard time installing a Drive-Thru. Cars can barely drive thru the narrow streets of the city. Customers on the go aren't driving by, they're walking by. So how do you cater to their needs? The McWalk of course. It's the walking version of a drive thru. Why bother walking inside, when you can place your order from the sidewalk? On one hand, it's genius, if lots of people walk by, let them order that impulse cheeseburger with kosher meat. On the other hand, is it so much more difficult to walk inside? Further investigation is needed. But don't be surprised when a McWalk opens up near you.

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World's Shortest Subway

The wiki says that Haifa has the world's shortest subway. But really it's just an underground funicular. Called "The Carmelit", it goes from the bottom of the hill to the top and has 5 stops. I had a hard time finding it. There's no big signs for the station and locals didn't know where it was either. From the train station, walk a couple blocks inland, then go north (left) to Paris Square. The subway station is a small stone building with yellow trim.
It's interesting to have a city on the side of a hill. There's great views everywhere, but there's no main streets through the city. Roads just wind their way up the hill.

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