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Can anyone tell me what the marker or monument is in the center of the I-75/I375/Gratiot interchange near Ford Field pictured below? I have driven by it a thousand times and never known what it was. It appears that there is a marker on it so I dont believe it is just remnants of an old light pole or something like that.
Google is good for almost everything, but I could not find any information about this one.
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Originally Posted by DetroitSoldier
Good question! I've wondered about that myself. I've driven by it a lot, but never had the time to pull over and go see what it's about.
Good puzzle.
From Street View, it seems to have a plaque on it.
From satellite view it appears to have a triangular base.
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Originally Posted by Jimaz
Right on both accounts. I hope it doesn't say "If you can read this you're too close..."
I have often wanted to pull over to investigate, but it's a terribly unsafe area to be to on foot. Traffic flies through there way too fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Honky Tonk
Ahh yes, the Battle of Freeway Hill...
Also, this is where owning a drone would come in handy.
FOUND IT!!!
http://onemorespoke.blogspot.com/201...-monument.html
What a stupid marker.
Wow. I'm really glad I have not wasted my time trying to get up to that location!! Tha ls for the link.
Anyone know what project exactly they are referring to on the marker? I would assume it's the interchange
Or "In memory of all those who gave their lives trying to get close enough to read this plaque." ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Honky Tonk
The plaque is still a curiosity. But the above responses have given me a chuckle or two that makes me glad it was placed there! :)
And the proper way to post a link is ....
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Upon first reading, it seems an appropriate commemoration of a job well done by the often overlooked working person. But further scrutiny might reveal otherwise. Let's start with the first word. Just who is this "we"? Is this some sort of Jungian collective unconscious "we"? There is nobody taking credit for the thanking here. It seems suspiciously like the workers are actually thanking themselves. Furthermore, what's up with the syntax? I know firsthand, writing without an editor, despite being liberating, is also very dangerous. You would think a plaque writer would get a second opinion.
But what calls for the most scrutiny here are the numbers. The original contract time for this, by the way, unnamed, project was just five days short of a year. As you can see though, it was finished in less than five months. Left unwritten is how much financial incentive there was to complete it so swiftly. Regardless, a four-month and three-week job deserves its own monument? That's the equivalent of every awful summer job anyone had as a teenager. And it would seem to me that a marriage jeopardized by 144 days of high-paying hard work probably has some other issues. Also, the loss of personal time and "precious time with loved ones" could most likely be made up in the, presumed, remainder of the year the workers now have off.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ug0sHXMo2h...0/IMG_7163.JPG
http://onemorespoke.blogspot.com/201...-monument.html
Gotta love the doink that wrote that though. Highway incentives are common and there is no underlying conspiracy involved. Some people just want to try to make a raging inferno out of every spent matchstick though.
Oh gosh I'm sorry to have to make you open a link.
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Originally Posted by dtowncitylover
Nah, you done good, congratulations! Meddle's just a cranky old guy... I can't believe it's a just a tribute to an interchange. I bet that truck driver was pissed @ me. I didn't know there was so much smoke inside those 18 wheels, or that horn was so loud...
If it makes you feel better, it does appear there is an image of someone wringing their hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meddle
Phase 1 was construction of the concrete obelisk. Phase 2 was construction of the metal sign. Matching the text with the correct date of installation was tedious.
Ha! Thanks for the laughs and turning a mole hill into a mountain.
For further reference, since we don't want any of our forum members to be injured, there are some rather cheap arial drones to do these types of jobs. Maybe it's too close to the arenas for that? I don't know.
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I think there is more to this thing.
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Originally Posted by gnome
Every time I see that thing, a feeling comes over me to pound the ground with a jaw bone.
Well if you get hit by an eighteen wheeler, your dentist will tell you; "no need to worry about no more plaque."Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimaz
Funny thread! You guys are just too much sometimes! :)
1) People were PAID for their time to work. These weren't volunteers.
2) I wonder how much that cost, who was behind its construction and how better the funds could have been used for the community.