You are there... IN HELL

[mmcirvin]

Now that Google Maps has street-level views for the Boston area, my old post on Hell Rotaries of Massachusetts can be enjoyed in a whole new manner!

I mentioned the post the other day to a co-worker of mine, and he immediately mentioned #5 and #4 on the list as worthy of inclusion.

But this, my friends, is the portrait of a champion: Timothy J. Mahoney Circle in operation. What's that? You can't tell where anyone is going or what is supposed to be going on? Neither can the driver of any of the pictured vehicles. The comically askew DO NOT ENTER sign is a nice touch.

(Even better, the Google link seems to malfunction slightly such that the little guy icon initially gets drawn on the wrong side of the circle. Not even Google can figure this place out on the first try.)

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

By the way, I love the effect when the car drives through the dark space under a bridge or overpass (look at where Storrow Drive goes under the Longfellow Bridge, the former site of the REVERSE THE CURSE sign, for a fine example). The cameras temporarily switch to a much longer exposure time, so that everything blurs out and the landscape ahead and behind turns into a featureless burst of blinding white radiance.