One Year Hallam St.
Streetcar Track Scan
This section features video clips shot on Hallam St. Most are short clips that show the current everyday life of the street, including clips taken with a GoPro video camera attached to the front of my car that record journeys along the full length of Hallam St. at different times of the year.
One video, however, is more elaborate and longer and presents documentation of a magnetic resonance scan of the key intersection of Hallam and Dovercourt as carried out by the Grafscan company. Grafscan was hired by me to determine whether or not the streetcar tracks that once existed on both streets were still buried somewhere under the asphalt. There are subtle depressions one can still see on Dovercourt approximately where a set of streetcar tracks might have been. Even thought it was determined by the scan that the tracks no longer exist, the scanner speculated that, in removing the tracks, the earth filling their former space might have compacted over time, thus allowing the asphalt to sink slightly – creating a faint trace of the former tracks that existed when the intersection was a busy transit hub for local residents.
