

From day one on the You should really listen to someone who actually rode both boards instead of meĭon't know if there's anything similar to the LT skate banana that fits your buget, but it seems like that's still popular with the park/butter kidsįor your needs I guess it'd make sense to go all the way with a hard rocker profile, right?:dunno: Still, the only territory where the like the perfect park/jib board to me.

Have to admit though, I've been out of the loop for a while, and my old board is a beat up camber deck with A LOT of milage. But first, commuters will have to wait for the stop to be finished, with excavating still underway and an expected opening at least four years off.įor a city that wasn't built in a day, its subway system certainly won't be, either.Can't compare 'em, cause I never tried the Artifact.īut I rode my brother's 152 WWW K2 for a week, and I liked it a zilion times more than what I expected from a board that costs about half of my old board. She hopes that will make it more enjoyable for people to wait for a train. "It will be a little museum, with all the barracks in the exact same position." "All that we've found here - the mosaics, everything - will be taken down, put inside special containers, then reassembled inside the metro stop," she says. Morretta says commuters there will be in for an even bigger treat. The next stop on the line will be Amba Aradam, the site of the ancient Roman military barracks, where archaeologists are still digging. One reason for the holdup was a surprise addition: inside the San Giovanni station, the walls are lined with artifacts discovered during the subway's construction, including stone bathtubs, marble busts, and even ancient peach pits from a Roman fruit vendor, all visible for the $1.75 cost of a metro ticket.

"Whoa! Because no one declare why the open day was delayed," he says. It is an important link that, for the first time, connects the C line to the city's two other subway lines. The city inaugurated its newest metro station, San Giovanni, in May. There are ongoing investigations into waste and runaway spending by modern-day contractors and governments. But city planners and officials can't blame all the delays on the ancients. The new route, the C line, was supposed to be ready in time for the Roman Catholic Church's Year of Jubilee - back in 2000.

Construction workers routinely have to shut the machinery down when a discovery is made. So, ornamental mosaics, floors made of marble slab in various colors, and painted frescoes."Īs two archaeologists dust mosaic flooring with tiny, precision brushes, idling industrial machinery belches diesel exhaust just a few feet away. "The other exciting discovery is that so much of the decoration was found intact. "It's a proper house, with a central courtyard," says Morretta. It dates back to the reign of the emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century A.D. At roughly 40 feet below the surface, her team, which began work in 2013 at this stop, has uncovered a dwelling that once belonged to the commander of an adjacent military barracks.
