Originally published at: Intersections of Pittsburgh | Boing Boing
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Man with spear in bum
Falling
Falling
Carrying a dog one handed
Nailed it
Jive time
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My regular rotation of anxiety nightmares involves the standard “teeth falling out” and “chased while running in slow motion” kinds of things that are common around the world. But there are a few variations on the theme of “driving in Pittsburgh” that are on the playlist to ensure I don’t get bored of the images accompanying my restless sleep.
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In Klingon it reads “drive carefully”.
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parts of a clock face or even motorway slip roads or even parts of a buckmaster fullerene… momento
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I thought this was some kind of haiku, beatnik-poem, free verse or some kind of poetry I did not recognize. Then I figured out they were descriptions/captions for each of the intersection diagrams posted.
Title: Feelings on waking up in 2021
Help I am confused and in pain (Man with spear in bum)
Loosing control, despairing (Falling, Falling)
Trying to keep it together, maybe failing (Carrying a dog one handed)
December soon, it will be over (Nailed it)
Time to dance in celebration (Jive time)
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Your’s is a better interpretation.
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Holy crap, my grad school apartment (95 - 97) was down the block from “Hazelwood, Beechwood, and Brown’s Hill,” and I navigated it to get to the bus stop on Murray.
Looking at Google Maps, it looks like the Burger King near the intersection is gone.
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Clearly, these are glyphs meant to communicate with an alien race. Just like the Nazca lines. We must prepare for the invasion of Pittsburgh…or not.
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Given Pittsburgh’s very hilly topography, a 3-D rendering of these intersections might be even scarier.
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The Bigelow/Herron one confused me at first since I’m used to thinking about it “hillside oriented upward” (i.e., North = Down). Particularly confusing is the little loop I thought corresponded to the pedestrian tunnel that goes under Bigelow. The loop in the illustration is actually a driveway- there’s no passage.
In related news, this is a neat chart showing which directions the streets run on average in select cities:
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=laughs in Boston=
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=sees you laughing a block away in Boston, has no idea how on earth to get to your location=
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/nodding in Detroit
Yeah, we’re hip to that kinda shit…
The above is the intersection of Grand River Ave (an ancient Native trail that runs at a NW/SE angle), Trumbull Ave (mostly N & S), and Martin Luther King Blvd/Mack Ave (the divided road running mostly E & W). It also unhelpfully features poorly-timed and confusing traffic signals. It’s a couple blocks SE of my place.
A reddit reader intelligently suggests a roundabout as a solution for that tangled intersection:
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Many of Seattle’s borked downtown intersections are the results of competing surveys and land claims by three of the city’s founders - Maynard, Boren, and Denny.
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Such intersections must’ve inspired Feynman diagrams.
So Pittsburgh was constructed by either Norsemen or Dwarves. Interesting.
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I’m glad to see the intersection of 87th, Pulaski, and Southwest highway in Chicago on there. I’ve been stuck there for ages, far too often. And just for fun, a train line parallels Southwest highway too. You’re going nowhere!
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Looked thru the graphic for a “Peachtree & Peachtree;” was not disappointed
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