Guess the City

The banner on the lightpost looks, to me, a lot like the banners you see on college campuses promoting the college?

Its a little dusty to be a college banner, I think thats a politician

the street lights look like Concorde or some kind of jet plane?

I think so too. Not to mention that such banners are more of a North American thing, no?

xp

the people look too white for it to be Kourou (French Guyana, ESA launch site) imho - nor would I expect to see a Renault or Peugeot in Baikonur

I've seen those kinds of banners in Europe.

Not that I know where this is. The number of people walking around points me toward Europe rather than North America though.

The college ones? A political ad seems way likelier imo.

yes at the newly dumbly named Université de Paris for example

though I agree that these are not likely college banners

Fair enough. I guess this photo doesn't strike me as very campus-y, although it's not impossible.

Also, are we certain that those suspended wires indicate the presence of a trolleybus system?

Why is politician partly whited out and is he holding some kind of torch?

It def can’t be North America, hardly any trolleybuses here, and it def gives an eastern Central Europe post soviet vibe. Somewhere in Romania?

Sizable trolley bus network in Seattle but it’s not Seattle

Seems a bit too clean to be Romania but I might be wrong. We've still got trolleybuses in some cities, that much is true.

Also, are we certain that those suspended wires indicate the presence of a trolleybus system?

― pomenitul, Saturday, January 30, 2021 12:23 PM (two hours ago)

also not sold on this trolley idea fwiw

The parallel cables do point towards it, I suppose.

Vilnius, maybe?

We're ignoring the mural

and not paying enough attention to the politician

Needs more jpeg.

I feel like I've seen the character in the right hand side of the mural somewhere before

Shirley Temple?

Will be getting another up shortly.

I mean, pom is right:

Needs more jpeg.

I'm intrigued by the sign next to the red gate, looks like it's representing a church or something like that. Like it's telling us "this hasn't always been a shithole, there used to be a beautiful church around here"

wish list (apart from higher resolution photos obv)
- ability to maximize pictures by more than the current 500%
- larger computer screen

is this Ukraine?

Could be Russia too. Or Belarus.

Yeah Belarus too, I was thinking of something in the Chernobyl area.

Making it easy

https://i.imgur.com/VKm0Sno.jpg

Nice place.

квитки, eh? That helps, but ticket booths are a dime a dozen in trolleybus land.

Cumbernauld

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.7879571,24.0164532,3a,75y,307.13h,80.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sURF6uj4CyLZpcJZuuxrmhw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Lviv

Was thinking Auchinstarry myself.

How'd you find it so fast?

I mean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_Ukraine

I'd found very similar streetlights in Kiev before but not quite the same. The blue/yellow in the mural was starting to make me ditch Russia (even though it turned out to be a red herring). I dropped on a couple of others, then saw the streetlights again in Lviv but when I went to other streets they changed back to standard so I figured they might be unique to where I'd dropped onto, moved along a minute or so and came across it

Didn't look at the trolley thing at all xp, wasn't convinced by that

Well played, as always.

I was still trying to work out why it seemed to say квитк instead of квиток for “ticket”, but forgot to check for the plural, which is indeed квитки, with the last letter not visible here - and then it would have been on to the over 40 UKR cities that currently have trolleybus systems... but knew others would get there much faster. well done!

I now have a very clear picture in my head of the blue and yellow guy in my imagination of the mural. That is completely different from the guy in the actual mural.

He is a Ukrainian national mascot with a yellow football for a head. I can picture him clear as day, but it is becoming clear that it most likely doesn't exist

Was wrong about the banner being a politician, looks like it is a university banner

Hah, and I was even wronger.

Lviv it is— the Lviv-1 Stryiskyi Bus Station, which is nowhere near the center of the city, and instead is set way back in the midst of Soviet apartment blocks many kilometers from the town center.

The last I was there, in 2005, there were packs of wild dogs running around, goats wandering that median, and we had to take the scariest jitney ride I've ever been on to get to the town center.

Certainly my most memorable travel experience.

We'd also taken an all-night train ride from Kraków to Przemyśl, then a bus-ride from there through the western Ukrainian countryside immediately beforehand, so were haunted by delirium, vodka, and statues of Stalin still proudly surrounded by roses in small town squares.

https://ukranews.com/uploads/news/2010/09/28/457e1c05c31089fb1a48994d3f7a83ed8b4b706d.jpg

this is the mascot of local football team FC Karpaty Lviv, looks kinda similar (I’d say the one in the photo is lion-like as well) but their shirt colour is emphatically green, so seems unlikely. if someone could only decipher the cyrillic graffiti...

I was pretty convinced it was Russia, possibly eastern Ukraine but discounted Lviv altogether at first. Those weird streetlights don't seem common. Definitely mostly luck on that one

That ad says 'Get a European education'.

xps

there were packs of wild dogs running around

In Romanian, we call stray dogs 'maidanezi'. Same root as the Ukrainian майдан (public square) of Euromaidan fame.

That ad says 'Get a European education'.

Looks like its for a university in Lublin