Curled and Crushed
June 5th, 2002[Mundane]
Curled
Crushed
Median of I-635, just East of 75
Dallas, TX
Almost daily, I drive past these two giant objects. They are sitting in the median of the freeway in an area that is under heavy construction. They are about 25 feet (or more) long and wide/tall enough to walk in with minimal amounts of ducking. They are laying end to end. Basically, each of them is a giant cylinder. They are very rusted, and have been smashed up a lot, shredding much of the metal. I finally decided that I should photograph them, afraid that they will be cleared away some day. I'm not quite sure what they are used for. Brad thinks it might be some kind of a cement mold.
The hardest part about taking these photographs was getting there. You can't exactly walk across 5 lanes of traffic on 635. Maybe at night, but then, the photos wouldn't have been the same. Actually getting to them wasn't that difficult. The cement wall that usually lines the freeway is not there, so the construction trucks can get in and out, I assume. However, leaving was a bit tougher. I had to jump, from the dirt onto the pavement, into the fast lane of midday traffic with only about 10 feet of shoulder to use for acceleration. And of course, since this is Dallas, no one was going to be nice and let me in without a fight.
