Comments on: Driving Through Buildings

By: Alex Turnbull

Alex Turnbull — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:14:04 +0000

Sadly when the Street View car arrived, it didn’t drive through the building! This is as close as it got:

By: chansikyuet

chansikyuet — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:51:17 +0000

Hong Kong also has one “drive through” car park
but the car driving through cannot enter the car park through the highway

The name of the car park is “Yau Ma Tei Car Park”
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By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:10:00 +0000

Four lanes of traffic travel through the casino in Melbourne

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By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:01:40 +0000

Well that is very common in Hong Kong, as you can imagine the city is so crowded with buildings and roadworks. Here is one:

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(22.309087, 114.170392)

The building, Yau Ma Tei Carpark Building, comprises carpark between G/F – 8/F and government office on 9//F and 10/F. The bridge, Gascoigne Road Flyover (or West Kowloon Corridor as in googlemap), being one of the busiest bridge in Hong Kong, goes thru the bldg in around 3/F – 5/F. This brige has been erected since probably over15 years ago.

Another example:
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(22.376002, 114.111782)

you could see there is a flyover going underneath a podium garden. This is a part of highway going thru a Residential cum Shopping mall complex called Discovery Park. The tricky point of this development is that the Residential complex is completed well before the flyover is started constructing. So there was a big hollow in the facade of the complex, and around 2 years later the flyover built thru it.

By: Tammo

Tammo — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:02:43 +0000

@nova72: It would appear the bit marked UR is the ‘Urban Renaissance Agency Osaka Station North Development Area ‘ …
If you’re really interested, you can look here.

By: Flümo

Flümo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:39:43 +0000

The Japanese have an incredible talent for stacked and intertwined traffic lanes. I’m always impressed and awed when I googleearth (yes, this is a verb ) around Tokyo:

Roads over railways over monorails with tunnels beneath bridges under skywalks…

By: SYSS Mouse

SYSS Mouse — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:08:20 +0000

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By: nova72

nova72 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:27:43 +0000

@ Tim, that was the first thing I thought.

Here is a crowd gathered at some event.
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UR?
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Universal Studios – Osaka
http://gojapan.about.com/cs/osakaentertain/a/universalstudio.htm
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By: Parker

Parker — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:46:41 +0000

The Walt Disney World monorail line runs through the middle of the Contemporary Resort. It’s actually set up this way with a station in the lobby, so hotel guests can easily get to the theme parks. But some trains run through at high speed without stopping, providing a surprising view for passengers (who can only see out the sides of the car and don’t expect to run through a building).

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Here’s a ground-level picture:
http://www.disneyfunsite.com/images/photos/resorts/contemporary_monorail2.jpg

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:06:54 +0000

Chicago’s Pink Line “L” train soes through Rush Medical Center.

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