Now there is a new addition: the bizarre color on the concrete median divider: I think it is aquamarine. Whatever it is today, it is going to be something awfully different once the Florida sun works its magic.
I tried to think; why the color, who could possibly have chosen it? The color does not exist anywhere in the natural world. Then I noticed yesterday, its near color-match on the cowling of the jet engines on Air Force One.
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Hey, its nice to see something different in the roadway other than roadkill and accidents. I noticed it for the first time Saturday. Hopefully the nicely colored barriers will keep the oncoming traffic safe by keeping it apart. As far as the sun's effect, it won't have time -- the hurried, careless and drunk will cause a constant need for repainting, so maybe the color was chosen for its low cost for constant repainting.
Oh, and additionally on the topic of unsafe driving, what are you doing snapping photos while driving, especially on a deadly section of road?
Doesn't that make it more difficult for you to hold your drink with the other hand? What's next, texting (or blogging) while driving? Shame, shame, shame.
Gimleteye writes:
There was a half hour wait this side of the C-111 while someone wrestled their boat to the side of the road that had fallen off a trailer. But you're not far off.
Ah, now I no why I was stopped for the half an hour. Thank you for the info. My wife and I rather liked the color and it certainly added tot the drab ride and the long, long wait.
I am a sucker for the spectrum...just my speed!
Bob Wyland of Whaling wall fame picked the color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyland
For that, he should be made to paint fish on every yard of the 18 Mile Stretch.
I thought they were going to 4-lane the whole stretch but instead they added a divider wall?
They destroyed miles of mangroves and eliminated water access for fishermen and boaters to erect a safety divider?
They did more than that. The disturbance at the shoreline by FDOT coincided with a massive pukey algae bloom in the southern part of Biscayne Bay. Nature bats last.
the color is "Belize Blue" - and yep that artist who does the big murals of whales is the culprit - they ( paid I assume? ) consulted/contract with him to pick the color ; in the meantime it's the barrier that really bothers me - used to be if there was a massive problem shutting down the Jewfish creek bridge, you could turn around and go back north to Card Sound road then go south again - at the moment you are trapped - at the least they should have left turn around space every 1/2 mile or something
but > put your hats on > the new Bridge ! opens Thursday 5/22 -
Seems pretty simple to me-like developers who name their developments after what USED to live there, the bluish color will be our only reminder that people used to go down to the keys to see Caribbean blue water.
"Gee grandma , tell me about how you used to swim and fish in the blue clear water in the Keys. WHy did you let those people turn it green and rotten?"
Green and rotten, it is. But Ed Swift's Conch Tour Train is still collecting cruise ship passengers like lint.
BTW
According to FDOT Public Information person Patti Jones
@ (305) 481-1186 the bridge will open late afternoon on the 22nd. I plan to be there.
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