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PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Fri Jun 29 10:20:22 2012 There were major bus changes in Jerusalem as of this morning, including some major reroutings and cancellations of routes, so I got a few photos of buses displaying numbers in places that they won't be seen anymore (or at all) yesterday. And I just happened to get a photo of a bus I've seen running around over the past few weeks or so with AMERICAN flags attached to the side mirrors. Sometimes, the buses get Israeli flags put there, especially around Israeli Independence Day (usually in early May), but this is the first time I've seen the flag for any other country on an Egged bus. (This bus is relatively undecorated these days, I took this photo of it on May 14, 2010, and it looked like that until a few months ago.) Here are some other photos from yesterday:   
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Fri Jun 29 13:40:33 2012, in response to PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Fri Jun 29 10:20:22 2012. most awesome. |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sat Jun 30 15:31:55 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by Terrapin Station on Fri Jun 29 13:40:33 2012. Thanks! |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Sat Jun 30 21:58:25 2012, in response to PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Fri Jun 29 10:20:22 2012. Nice pics! Love the hills in the background of the 2nd photo. Do the route display signs display their destinations in english as well? Or strictly one language? |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by LRG5784 on Sat Jun 30 22:49:17 2012, in response to PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Fri Jun 29 10:20:22 2012. Nice photos. In the first photo, is that tape at the bottom of the bus? |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 1 01:24:47 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by LRG5784 on Sat Jun 30 22:49:17 2012. Sure looks like it. Nothing compared to its previous decoration though, I provided a link in the OP to that photo. |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 1 01:25:41 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by ClearAspect on Sat Jun 30 21:58:25 2012. Do you know of any country where the bus destination signs are bilingual? English isn't even an official language of the State of Israel. |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Sun Jul 1 05:19:37 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 1 01:25:41 2012. Well... I can't name a country... HOWEVER in Hong Kong they do display their Routes in both Cantonese and English :)You could've also said no, instead of trying to be sarcastic... |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Sun Jul 1 05:36:14 2012, in response to PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Fri Jun 29 10:20:22 2012. Oh. I thought someone had thrown eggs at a bus because it had American flags on it.Also, that last artic is leeeaaannnin'.... |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 1 07:17:24 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by ClearAspect on Sun Jul 1 05:19:37 2012. I wasn't being sarcastic, I'd like someone to explain to me why Americans can't get over the fact that most international bus operators whose languages are written in non-Roman characters only make their destination signs in the "home" language. The question comes up far more often here IMO than it should. |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 1 07:19:37 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by G1Ravage on Sun Jul 1 05:36:14 2012. I used to get that last artic fairly often on a different route, don't remember how it handled then. But there isn't much that causes the bus drivers here to slow down. |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by merrick1 on Sun Jul 1 07:23:01 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 1 01:25:41 2012. Albany NY has a bus destination of Ohav Shalom but it is in English characters. |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 1 10:36:28 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by merrick1 on Sun Jul 1 07:23:01 2012. There is nothing wrong with that. However, the notion that Israeli transportation should make its signage in English is ludicrous. A few, select signs at critical points used by tourists are in English (i.e. the gate for the bus to Jerusalem at the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv), but just as in other countries, things here are written in the local language. The bus stop signs have Hebrew and English on them for the most part, though the English spellings often leave a lot to be desired. |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Jul 1 19:04:44 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by ClearAspect on Sun Jul 1 05:19:37 2012. I guess that you didn't ask correctly. No soup for you! |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Mon Jul 2 08:55:32 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by G1Ravage on Sun Jul 1 05:36:14 2012. Yeah I saw that a lot over there. |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by Hank EisenStein on Tue Jul 3 06:14:51 2012, in response to PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Fri Jun 29 10:20:22 2012. American Immigrant driver, perhaps? |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by R36 #9346 on Tue Jul 3 11:19:34 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 1 01:25:41 2012. Japan. |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Tue Jul 3 13:02:37 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 1 01:25:41 2012. Do you know of any country where the bus destination signs are bilingual? English isn't even an official language of the State of Israel.Aren't the destination signs on the light rail trilingual? |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Jul 3 15:41:31 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Tue Jul 3 13:02:37 2012. Yes, they are. However, in my travels, I find that subways/light rails/trains tend to be more "tourist friendly" than buses, so the original question still stands. The destination signs on the new Israel Railways Siemens Push-Pulls show both English and Hebrew, and the automated announcements for some (but not all) train lines are in those languages (but there are no Arabic announcements on the railway lines). |
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Jul 3 15:43:41 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by Hank EisenStein on Tue Jul 3 06:14:51 2012. Highly unlikely. As I wrote in the OP, this bus has a history of being heavily decorated, it used to look like this:
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Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others) |
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Posted by TERRapin station on Wed Jul 4 09:09:18 2012, in response to Re: PHOTO: Egged Bus with American Flags (and a few others), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Jul 3 15:43:41 2012. LOL |
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