Tuesday, July 6, 2010

A new intersection

The new Side Road intersection has been under construction for months. But progress is finally being seen.


The highlight, of course, is a new overpass crossing Highway 89-A.

It finally is spanning the highway though much finish work is still to be done.

I wonder, by the way, who came up with the scintillating name of "Side Road" for . . . a side road.

5 comments:

Suz said...

Side road huh? original

Vicki Lane said...

These things stick. There's a road in Asheville that was an alternative route for driving cattle to market -- back in the mid-1800s. It's still called New Stock Road.

Judy said...

There must have been meetings and think tanks and a great deal of thought put into the name of that road. Probably a lot of overtime money was paid before it was decided.

Ball Points said...

The concept was actually designed by early transportation engineer, Susan Side as way to alleviate some traffic flows--especially between cars and wagons. But "back in the day" she had to disguize herself as a man because being an engineer was "out of place" for a woman. And keeping with that theme, people couldn't call it a "Suzie Road".

Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis Hall said...

love the images!