ADVISORY TO MOTORISTS IN CHINA

This bridge is not finished.

(Thanks to Jeff Meyerson)

Comments

[Not My Usual Alias]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouHkL7u9qLw for those feeling a moment of Blues Brothers deja vu

[MikeyVA]

Have you ever tried to read Mandarin?

[Gary]

"Off route recalculating, off route recaaaaa"

[Meanie the Blue]

Hello, this is 0nStar. How can we assist you?

Do you have a crane, some concrete, .....?

[Carl-Bear]

I saw something like that in Atlanta, GA just before the Olympics. The idiots were "improving" the interstate in preparation for the games. They put in a new exit ramp, put up all the appropriate signs, and opened it up.

Except the "ramp closed" sign.

The ramp wasn't actually finished. It end in mid-air (kinda like that China pic, but higher). When I drove by there were several cars stopped on the ramp behind one car perched on the very edge of space. People were standing around, looking over the precipice, and clearly demanding, "WTF?!"

[O the Umanity]

"Wow! No traffic! Here we go!"

[Not My Usual Alias]

"We're making great tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime"

[funny man]

"Hey, lets take this shortcut!"

Other two girls agree. Then all three start screaming,
"Where did the road go!!Yikes!!!" as the car flips & falls.

Imagining something like that. The workers "forgot"
to put up the signage. Sounds like they've mastered the Washington, DC management style.

[Jeff in Ann Arbor]

Thelma? Louise?

[Coconuts]

And they weren't even blonde. Geech.

[Omniskeptic]

If the bridge is not finished, the car is. All is in balance, my children.

[LeDud]

Whoa Omni ! Gotta go rent some Kung Fu videos.

[Jeff Meyerson]

NMUA: The Blues Brothers was the first thing that came to my mind too. As an aside, a friend from Wisconsin said the ramp they launched off was indeed in Chicago but where they filmed the landing was in Wisconsin.

I hope that's true.

[Jeff Meyerson]

NMUA's link.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Here's the other reference: The shot leading up to the car drop, where the "Illinois Nazis" drive off a freeway ramp, was shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin near the Hoan Bridge on Interstate 794. The Lake Freeway (North) was a planned but not completed 6-lane freeway and I-794 contained an unfinished ramp that the Nazis drove off.[12] Several Milwaukee skyscrapers are visible in the background as the Bluesmobile flips over, notably the U.S. Bank Center.
Prop concert posterThe "Palace Hotel Ballroom," where the band performs its climactic concert, was at the time of filming a country club, but later became the South Shore Cultural Center, named after the Chicago neighborhood in which it is located

[Steve]

Houston, we have a failure to launch.

[JaneH]

Notice that there STILL isn't a sign up?

[Loudmouth]

Sounds like they've mastered the Washington, DC management style.

Quite literally, fm. For about 50 years here along the DC Georgetown waterfront the Whitehurst Freeway had an uncompleted hanging ramp that looked like that. Granted there were signs and barriers, but it was the epitome of a a Gov't project.

[Loudmouth]

Oops. Did I break the blog?

[ferj064]

Is that their bridge to Florida?

[O the Umanity]

Or Alaska?

[offset patio umbrella]

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