The City of Austin recently unveiled a plan to remodel a section of Interstate 35 that runs through downtown Austin. Karie Meltzer has written an excellent article about the project. She cuts to the heart of the matter, that I-35 is not just a big road, it is a racial and cultural boundary, even if gentrification has been blurring the line.
This particular section of I-35 is home for a weekly church service for the homeless, and it just happens to be the setting for my story, Anasazi-35, which you can still read up at Fusion Fragment.
The future is catching up to this humble Austin monument. The city plans will involve LED light arches. Supposedly they represent a gateway between the socio-economic districs, but a.) they are pointed 90-degrees the wrong way, and b.) the downtown socio-economic district has already extended about ten blocks through this particular gateway in the direction indicated. But it’s a nice try.
I like how the concept image, like the reality, is filled with thousands of grackles.
First step the low-power LED arches. Next step is an adobe squatter village of techno-savages.
