{"id":571,"date":"2007-05-08T08:36:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T08:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/05\/08\/travelling-around-kaduna\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T08:36:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T08:36:39","slug":"travelling-around-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/05\/08\/travelling-around-kaduna\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling around Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I finally got round to starting another one of my little projects: making a Kaduna bus map.  Around 11am I set off from NTI to take each of the bus routes around the city and log the stops on my GPS.<\/p>\n<p>I think quite a few of the drivers and conductors were fairly bemused by this <a href=\"\/_static\/site\/NGglossary#baturi\" class=\"glossary\">baturi<\/a> sitting in the front of the bus, scribbling notes in a little black book and occasionally pressing buttons on an odd blue device wedged under the windscreen.<\/p>\n<p>Before I boarded the first bus I was hanging around at Kawo and saw a train approaching, with a single goods van behind the locomotive.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Train_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/Train_t.jpg\" alt=\"A scruffy-looking locomotive on a single-track line passing trees and dusty waste ground.\" title=\"A train passing through Kawo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the end I visited various parts of Kaduna I&#8217;d never been to before and gathered enough data to make the map.  Now I just need to spend some time drawing it.<\/p>\n<p>The last trip of the day was out to the end of Mando.  I strolled back through the edge of town and had some <a href=\"\/_static\/site\/NGglossary#suya\" class=\"glossary\">suya<\/a> for dinner.  As I was walking along the road I saw this sign:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/GTBadvert_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Kaduna\/GTBadvert_t.jpg\" alt=\"GTB bank advert: I aim for excellence; I am orange; I am Guaranty Trust Bank.\" title=\"Advert for Guaranty Trust Bank in Mando\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just what everyone looks for in a bank: orangeness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I finally got round to starting another one of my little projects: making a Kaduna bus map. Around 11am I set off from NTI to take each of the bus routes around the city and log the stops on my GPS. I think quite a few of the drivers and conductors were fairly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}