Big tram trip across Omsk part 1 on 17th June 2006

[tiger4160]

60 Minutes Australia had a segment about nuclear power and the problems last night , and they featured those poor dear children near Chernobyl affected by radiation sickness . It just made me want to cry and bring them all to Australia away from that trouble .

[TimBrown59]

@tiger4160 Now it is the Japanese who are worried by such things, at least Chernobyl is pretty much sealed.

[tiger4160]

I have friends in Omsk and they tell me that there is no radiation problems in Omsk

[TimBrown59]

@tiger4160 I have not come across any radiation problems either.

[mer3abec]

A babki na relsi kto spisdil? Naverno relsi let 30 ne menjali. ppc na takoi kolotushke ehat'.

[MrDrFogg]

erittäin mielenkiintoinen paikka.. kaukana siperiassa.

[TimBrown59]

Thanks! Kiitos!

[silesia711]

i like such old trams. The gauges look like the totally damaged one's in silesia. The trams in Omsk are not beautiful but i like them.

[TimBrown59]

Yes they are clunky old things but they carry on but for how much longer?

I'll check this summer.

[allexxandy]

@silesia711 Sorry guys, I have never shared the satisfaction in this old russian trams. This is very inconvenient transport. I think it is even radioactive infected. I know some people from Tokio, they avoid Omsk City, because of high radiation.

[TimBrown59]

I have never come across evidence of radioactivity from people who have lived there their whole lives.

I would have thought that people from Tokyo would avoid Nagasaki or Hiroshima then, if they worry about such things?

[TimBrown59]

@allexxandy Add Fukushima to that list now.

[Timosha321]

the trams go pretty fast!!

[TimBrown59]

I wouldn't have thought the trams do more than 30mph, the track is a little rough & you can hear a rail joint virtually every second.

[Timosha321]

they go fast to a russian tram though (in most russian cities trams don't go faster 20 mph)

[TimBrown59]

This is travelling north to south parallel with the river Irtysh which is some distance to the west, the left hand side of the picture. The video starts in Ulitsa Marshala Jukova.

Marshal Jukov's statue & the concert hall are to the north just out of sight.

Part 3 ends & part 4 starts in Ulitsa Serova.