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The in-plane electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power have been measured on single crystals ofLa2-xBaxCuO4 at around x=0.125. The room temperature resistivity and thermopower have their maximum val-ues at x=0.125, indicating that the carrier concentration is the minimum and the carriers are most strongly localized atx=0.125. The observed semiconductor-like behaviour can be well described by the weak-localized quasi-two-dimensionalstate. The steep rise in electric resistivity of the sample at x=0.125 below 70K is attributed to the formation of staticstripe-order of holes and spins, which are pinned by the low-temperature tetragonal (LTT) structure, as discovered inLa1.4sNd0.4Sr0.12CuO4.The temperature dependence of electric resistivity below 70K is still well described by theformula p ∝ lnT. A definite change in the slope of thermopower is observed at the low-temperature orthorhombic-LTTstructural phase transition temperature. The origin of the 1/8 anomaly is discussed in the text.