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November The new benches are intentionally uncomfortable, so that sitting people don’t block the potential advertisements on them.  ADVERTISEMENT A dumpster lot.  A cultural layer of street signs.  Cable. Power supply. Do not dig within a 100 m radius. Only during this visit did I notice the historical shape of the Perm house number sign. The canopy of the sign reminds me of a budenovka—a pointed Red Army cap.  There are almost no signs like this left. Let’s commit them to memory for future generations.  “Star” Newspaper St. Bike lanes, which last year were timidly delineated with road markings on just one street (see Perm in September 2009), have matured, come into their own and become full-fledged participants of traffic life. Now traffic signs have appeared in addition to the markings—an important step from a legal standpoint.  There isn’t a single cyclist outside, though. And no parked bicycles in the street.  The fence surrounding a perpetual construction site has been decorated with a project consisting of pedestrian walk sign pictograms from around the world, which the reader already encountered at the beginning of the year in New York.  Looking at this photograph, one might think that the historical traffic light is located at the historical Marx and Lenin Street intersection mentioned on the plaque.  In 1956, the first traffic light in the Perm region was installed at the intersection of K. Marx St. and Lenin St. Unfortunately, no—you’ll have to trek to Kirov Street. |
