#imagine meeting this architect at a party and hearing their story like goggle eyed the whole time

[caffeinecortisol]

Someone with many years of degrees and accolades sat down at their desk one day and said yes, I'm going to invent the MOST efficient application of materials and space, an improvement on every intersection that came before, I'm going to design a labyrinth that tangles roads in hitherto unimaginable ways, I'm going to singlehandedly catapult us into the future of hovercraft lanes but without the hovercrafts - and after a lot of consideration and many drafts, eventually, they came up with this.

Then they put months of their life into proving this design is technically possible; they had consultations, like, with other engineers! They presented it at board meetings and it won round after round of approvals. Repeatedly! Someone was the first person to build it, and someone else said, upon beholding this multi-million-dollar ecstatic exercise of bureaucracy - hey that delightful monstrosity they have over there, I want one too! Put one in my county! Where people live, on purpose!

wow, apparently these shitting terrifying, tall, multilayered overpasses are mostly a texas thing. i still have nightmares about these things because i have had to traverse them in various forms throughout my whole life and theyre horrifying abberations to life especially if you have to walk under them to commute daily