Sunday, March 22, 2009

Macau 2009 Street Scenes II

4 different levels, 4 different porch grill approaches.

Painted wall scene. Interpretation from my friend Anthony: The words there say 'everyone enjoys a clean city together'. The kid in the middle is tying up a garbage bag. The arrows are meaning that if you take care of garbage it will lead to a clean city for everyone ( the arrow leading to the right) , if not you will go to jail (arrow leading down).



Lots of scooter action. More from Anthony: Sometimes behind a big casino (e.g. Wynn), you will find hundreds of scooters belonging to employees. Scooter is a main form of transportation in Macau. The scooters you picture there, they are all parking illegally. Last year the government tried to enforced illegal parking for scooters, the Macau people almost went to demonstration. Apparently they need to have 10 times more parking spaces for scooters, there are not enough of them. If you walk around the older part of Macau, many streets are very narrow. One of my Macau friend bought a Mercedes Benz, but sold it less than a month later. He said the car is too big, he could not get into many of the streets and the older car parks. I do not have a car myself so for once I thought about getting a driving license for scooter, it will take me 18 months to get ! a crack at my first driving test! This is a scooter town. Also note that China-HongKong-Macau is building a 3 way bridge so that people can drive from one place to another. Huge project, expected to be finished by 2016. I cannot imagine what will happen in Macau, their infrastructure will not be able to cope with in the influx of vehicles. There will be total chaos here.

fascinating!


Every balcony different. Photos are worth clicking on to get the larger view.


Parking options.

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