Traffic and walks
May. 5th, 2023 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcThis evening we took a pleasant walk over the Clyde and around the various office and retail in the city centre. Stopping in a Tesco Express, I got to hear Alison Moyet. Over on our side of the river, it's more industrial, less shiny, though various new developments are thought to be good for this neighbourhood. As we threw away rubbish nearer home, a rat ran out of the bin.
Around here we often walk under bridges for various motorways and some rail. Having all the motorways reminds me of my childhood, my walk to my first primary school passed under the M60. I thought back to then and remembered, from those early days, a fish and chip shop. I wondered if it was still there and, from looking online, surprisingly, it is indeed: Chau's Chip Shop on Lostock Road, established in 1979.
My desk is situated with a good view of the exit ramp of a motorway and it occurred to me that technology is probably good enough that I could arrange a system for reading all the car registration numbers to build up some database of sightings for analysis. What I'd look for in that data, I don't know. It reminds me of when I had a work desk in Boston that overlooked where geese would sometimes congregate and I wondered about goose-tracking and analyzing their social kinetics.
Around here we often walk under bridges for various motorways and some rail. Having all the motorways reminds me of my childhood, my walk to my first primary school passed under the M60. I thought back to then and remembered, from those early days, a fish and chip shop. I wondered if it was still there and, from looking online, surprisingly, it is indeed: Chau's Chip Shop on Lostock Road, established in 1979.
My desk is situated with a good view of the exit ramp of a motorway and it occurred to me that technology is probably good enough that I could arrange a system for reading all the car registration numbers to build up some database of sightings for analysis. What I'd look for in that data, I don't know. It reminds me of when I had a work desk in Boston that overlooked where geese would sometimes congregate and I wondered about goose-tracking and analyzing their social kinetics.
