Ramp to Nowhere

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There is a park in the Montlake neighborhood that wanders through an abandoned half-finished maze of on- and off ramps to the 520 freeway and floating bridge. You can read here about how the neighborhood fought and voters finally scrapped this project mid-build in the 70s. The area is adjacent to the Arboretum and the park is mainly traversed by runners and walkers of dogs on land, and kayaks and cones on water. If you look on a Google Earth map at these structures from above, you can tell the unused roadways from the used by the huge paintings and graffiti visible on the pavement in sat photos and the abrupt unfinished ends of ramps to nowhere. It was raining when I went for a walk there, and I liked the brooding light, colors, and curving reflections of the structures.