More Sydney Metro photos: Gadigal (Town Hall) station to Martin Place

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Sydney's Museum station is an underrated gem.

Instead of ads for modern products, the billboards are all old 20th century advertisements. Some, for businesses that no longer exist, such as Mark Foy's department store.

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The tree cover in Sydney's Hyde Park is so lush and cool on a hot day.

(And yes, to everyone reading this from interstate or overseas: I know naming the big park in the Sydney CBD "Hyde Park" was not exactly a creative choice.)

(I'll also refrain from making me obvious jokes about Sydney's asbestos crisis.)

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The lost art of hand-written public transport signs

From an exhibition at the Sydney Bus Museum:

"Sign writing was once an important trade. The signs needed to direct bus traffic and provide timetable and destination information for Sydney's bus network were formerly painted by hand at Randwick Depot.

"Many of those employed to do this work considered it to be their job for life. Their skill is evident, but it was time consuming and expensive to produce signs this way, and by the 1980s the writing was on the wall for this trade.

"Various printing techniques have replaced the hand painted sign in almost all situations in the bus and transport industry, but if you look around the museum, you will see many examples of their craft."

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Warning: This post is about to make you feel very old.

Think for a moment where you watched the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.

Well, one of the busses from those games is now on display at the Sydney Bus Museum.

But wait, why is a bus from the Sydney Olympics doing in a transport museum?

Well, because the 2000 Olympics were held almost a quarter of a century ago.

I did warn you this post would make you feel old.

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From gadgetbahn to museum piece...

You know that self-driving bus the NSW government was trialling back in 2014?

Well, you can now see it in the Sydney Bus Museum.

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Beautiful Sunday afternoon at the park in Sydney... Oh wait...

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Swift spotted in Sydney 😲

There's a good display on them at the Australian Museum, which is well worth the price of (free) admission.

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And not a car in sight...

Laisvės Alėja (Independence Way) is a fully pedestrianised street that runs east-west across most of Kaunas.

It is lined with shops, restaurants, cafe/bars, museums, outdoor dining areas, and historical sites (such as the old Presidential Palace, which was used from 1918 until the 1930s). Three-to-four floors of apartments can be found above the shops.

A small tree-lined park can be found in the middle of the street, with bicycle paths and outdoor dining areas on the sides.

During summer, the bars and cafes fill up as lunch approaches, and they remain busy well into the evening (with twilight sometime around 10:30pm).

Cuisine varies from traditional Lithuanian fare (such as Cepeliniai and Saltibarciai) to modern Italian, Turkish, Georgian, Japanese, American, Thai, and more. (That includes these delicious burritos and nachos.)

The street begins as Vilnius Gatve at the town hall square in the old city, just near Kaunas Castle and the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris Rivers.

It continues for roughly 2.3 kilometres across almost the entire length of the city, to the historic Church of St Michael the Archangel (Sv. Arkangelo Mykolo Baznycia).

It is bisected by a second pedestrianised street running north-south that links it to the war museum, the Zalgris basketball arena, and the university.

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Your local NIMBYs don't like barrier-protected on-road bike lanes?

But you have wide footpaths?

Consider doing what Klaipeda (in Lithuania) did, and put your painted bike lane on the footpath, rather than the road.

Yeah, it's not an ideal solution, but it's better than fighting traffic.

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Dedicated bike lanes, separated from the road and the pedestrian footpath, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

It's a concept many local councils in Melbourne and Sydney are struggling with, apparently.

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Oh sure, these cafes and bars in a public square in Vilnius, Lithuania, attract a great crowd on a weeknight.

But.

Ask any Melbourne shopkeeper and they'll tell you this scene couldn't possibly be real. You know why?

No parking spots out the front.

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Melbourne and Sydney shopkeepers: We need parking out the front of our shops, or else no-one will ever come!!!

Meanwhile, in Vienna (with far fewer people)...

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