And he also noted that people were rowing on the lake and the dip of the oars as they went down the lake was a kind of rhythmic experience. “He noted that the people running along the lake are doing so rhythmically and those signs were intended to mimic that rhythm. “ was actually thinking about those blue signs in ways of responding to the lake,” Lambe says. The original rendering for "Moments" at night (left) and what it looks like today. The group narrowed it to four finalists and ultimately chose a design by an architect named Carl Trominski. Thirty-one proposals were submitted by 28 artists. Want news alerts from KUT? Subscribe through our Facebook Messenger bot. “Council actually looked at what can we do in this area to enliven it, to make it look more interesting and more beckoning to that area that is just north of the Lamar underpass,” says Sue Lambe, who directs Austin’s Art in Public Places program. The origins go back to the year 2000, when the Austin City Council asked for a study to see how the city could make the underpass look a little nicer. But there’s no plaque or description of what they might be. They're actually art, one of more than 260 pieces in the City of Austin's Art in Public Places collection. "I had a friend suggest they might be for diverting airflow?" Bauman says. They’re highway rest stop blue, set at odd angles. There are about eight or nine of them on each side of the underpass, sticking out over the sidewalk. “ looks like somebody just cut up some old highway signs and it’s a practical joke,” she says. So she asked about them for our ATXplained project. Send us feedback about these examples.When you're driving down Lamar Boulevard between Lady Bird Lake and Fifth Street, do you ever look at the walls of the underpass beneath the train bridge? Do you look at those blank blue signs on the walls of the underpass and wonder: What the heck are those things? These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'underpass.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 What about art in the underpass, or improved walkways? - Teri Webster, Dallas News, 22 Dec.
2023 In an inky pedestrian underpass, the only illumination was a flower seller’s display of blooms, backlit by LED lights. 2023 The Hessville Dune Dusters, an environmental group working to preserve the dunes in Hammond, argues the city should take a different approach by either constructing the bridge in a different location or digging an underpass below the rail. Ariana Bennett, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2021 Tucked near a highway underpass, a greenhouse glows faintly in the cold night. 2022 Harry has often spoken with anguish and bitterness about what happened to Diana all those years ago when she was cast out of the royal family after her divorce from Prince Charles and later died in a car wreck in a Parisian underpass, the paparazzi in hot pursuit. 2022 The underpass will be named for Phil Alperson, who died in 2020 and had overseen the project for the county’s transportation department before his retirement. 2023 On Roanoke’s Fairway Ranch neighborhood Facebook page, the usual gripes focused on why the underpass on Byron Nelson Boulevard was once again closed, or the pack of wild hogs wandering in front of Cox Elementary. Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. Recent Examples on the Web The next morning, a cyclist called 911 after riding through a pool of blood by the I-17 underpass at Castles N' Coasters, close to where Brosso's head had been recovered 10 months earlier.
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