Comments on: Aesthetic Interchange

By: Yokota Fritz

Yokota Fritz — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:33:19 +0000

There’s an old story in the San Diego Union Tribune about the creation of a unique highway safety sign that was created by Caltrans graphic artist John Hood.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:17:46 +0000

” …to explain why Warhol’s box was art while its look-alike in common life was not”.

Jorge Luis Borges explored this brilliantly in a short story called “Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote”, which examines passages from the fictitious author Menard’s version of Don Quixote, and explains why it is superior to the identical original.

By: Bob Timmermann

Bob Timmermann — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:10:04 +0000

The change was made in part because the interchange from the northbound 110 and the northbound 5 has had a “smart lane” (perhaps not the right description) where during the rush hours, there are two lanes for people to change over, instead of just one.

Historically, the interchange has been one lane (fast lane) with a long backup complicated by people who wish to skip waiting in the lane by driving in the #2 lane and then making a quick dash into the interchange at the last moment.

It was always “challenging.”