Public Infrastructure that Sounds Like a Robert Ludlum Novel

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This has the meme-ish feel of something that’s been done before, but just in case it hasn’t…

Currently, in the Sydney Morning Herald’s whimsical Column 8, there is a challenge to find public works that sound like one of Ludlum’s titles. It kicked off with a freeway intersection north of Sydney, called THE CALGA INTERCHANGE. Today, we have THE BURNT BRIDGE CREEK DEVIATION and THE OURIMBAH ROUNDABOUT.

This wonderfully stupid idea tickled me, so please feel free to add your own local Ludlumesque names.

I was going to put this in CS, but probably better here.

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The Slauson Cutoff.

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The Bitterne Triangle

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The Outerbridge Crossing (oddly enough a bridge named after Eugenius Outerbridge, first chairman of the Port of New York Authority).

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The Blue Plains

With cover photo, if the name is not Ludlumesque enough for you.

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Nothing to see here…move along

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I know people are named Blue, but somehow it’s just not as delicious as something preposterously multisyllabic like The Oglethorpe Necromancy or The Schwertferger Integument.

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The Skyway Complex (NY 5 between downtown Buffalo and Lackawanna.)

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I know nobody’s named Skyway.

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There’s The Summerlin Flyover down here.

We also have overpasses that have a feature called a Texas Turnaround, for you Louis L’Amour novelists.

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Similar to Beware of Doug 's first example, we have The Augustine Cutoff

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The Décarie Circle.