The Blue Tinkertoys of Taylor
Okay - so earlier this year we finally got rid of the Red Tinker-Toys along Washington Blvd. in downtown Detroit. And what happens next?
The morons in the Michigan Department of Transportation decide to replace them with the Blue Tinkertoys of Taylor. Officially, they're part of a bridge over Telegraph Rd. along I-94. Built as an homage to football (because the Super Bowl is coming to town). They called it a "Gateway to Detroit."
Urgh!
Let's face it. The thing is ugly. Ugly. Ugly. Ugly.
It's really that simple. Ugly.
I swear, I could hand a bottle of Jack Daniels to any randomn homeless guy downtown and get a better design than that one.
Plus, it took forever to build the darn thing - creating a traffic nightmare whenever I needed to go west of Detroit.
It wouldn't be so bad if they just said, "hey, we built this really expensive bridge and it's blue." It would be easier for me to igorne it then.
But that's not what happened. They decided to start calling it a "Gateway to Detroit."
Please. That's like dumping a few thousand rolls of tiolet paper along the English countryside and calling it the "Gateway to London."
Detroit deserves better than more freakin' tinker-toys.
In my opinion, the only good thing about something like this is that there aren't any lights on it. This means that we can drive by it at night and it's easy to forget that the thing is there.
The morons in the Michigan Department of Transportation decide to replace them with the Blue Tinkertoys of Taylor. Officially, they're part of a bridge over Telegraph Rd. along I-94. Built as an homage to football (because the Super Bowl is coming to town). They called it a "Gateway to Detroit."
Urgh!
Let's face it. The thing is ugly. Ugly. Ugly. Ugly.
It's really that simple. Ugly.
I swear, I could hand a bottle of Jack Daniels to any randomn homeless guy downtown and get a better design than that one.
Plus, it took forever to build the darn thing - creating a traffic nightmare whenever I needed to go west of Detroit.
It wouldn't be so bad if they just said, "hey, we built this really expensive bridge and it's blue." It would be easier for me to igorne it then.
But that's not what happened. They decided to start calling it a "Gateway to Detroit."
Please. That's like dumping a few thousand rolls of tiolet paper along the English countryside and calling it the "Gateway to London."
Detroit deserves better than more freakin' tinker-toys.
In my opinion, the only good thing about something like this is that there aren't any lights on it. This means that we can drive by it at night and it's easy to forget that the thing is there.
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