{"id":2151,"date":"2012-11-26T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T06:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-11-26\/2151"},"modified":"2012-11-26T15:16:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T06:16:15","slug":"kyotos-road-to-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-11-26\/2151","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto’s Road to Somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/9, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRecognize This Place?<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Five and a half years ago — 1,609 blog posts ago — I posted<\/span>\n“Kyoto\u2019s Road to Nowhere<\/a>”, about a bridge<\/span> that led\nstraight into the rocky face of a mountain<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f\/2.8 @ 17mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>80 sec, f\/4.5, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>Bridge to Nowhere<\/span>\n5½ years ago\n<\/div>\n\n

On a mountain fall-foliage-photography drive yesterday with Paul Barr and Damien Douxchamps, we came across the same bridge,\nnow with the addition of a tunnel<\/span> (the Oofuse Tunnel; \u5927\u5e03\u65bd\u30c8\u30f3\u30cd\u30eb)<\/span>)...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Sigma “Bigma” 50-500mm OS @ 140mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/9, ISO 720 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nKyoto's Road to Nowhere<\/span>\nNow goes somewhere\n\u4eac\u90fd\u5e02\u5de6\u4eac\u533a\u82b1\u810a\u5927\u5e03\u65bd\u753a\n( sorry for the over-the-top processing; I was<\/span> just playing around in Lightroom )<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

It's still a monumental<\/i> waste of money, considering the expense\nthat two bridges and one tunnel must have cost, and the total lack of\napparent benefit in bypassing a few<\/span> hundred meters of pleasant road.<\/p>\n\n

One can hope that it's merely the first step to some purposeful\nmulti-decade plan to turn the almost-unused lazy mountain road into some\nkind of life-giving transportation artery for some far-flung population of\ntaxpayers languishing in dire need, but it's much more likely that the\nlocal ward had to expend the money one year or risk having next year's\nbudget cut by the amount unspent. As wholly<\/span> unfathomable is it sounds,\nthat's apparently how it works in Japan. (And by a quirk<\/span> of Kyoto\ngeopolitics, the “local ward” of this far-flung place an hour's drive away\nis actually the same ward that I live<\/span> in, so it's my tax yen paying for it.\nUgh.)<\/p>\n\n

I've still not driven on the bridges or through the tunnel; we opted to\nspend the extra 30 seconds to take the more pleasant long way around.<\/p>\n\n

Sorry, no wigglegrams<\/a> this time.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five and a half years ago -- 1,609 blog posts ago -- I posted \"Kyoto\u2019s Road to Nowhere\", about a bridge that led straight into the rocky face of a mountain:<\/p>

On a mountain fall-foliage-photography drive yesterday with Paul Barr and Damien Douxchamps, we came across the same bridge, now with the addition of a tunnel (the Oofuse Tunnel; \u5927\u5e03\u65bd\u30c8\u30f3\u30cd\u30eb))...<\/p>

It's still a monumental waste of money, considering the expense that two bridges and one tunnel must have cost, and the total lack of apparent benefit in bypassing a few hundred meters of pleasant road.<\/p>

One can hope that it's [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}