Eastlink
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The new Eastlink tollway in Melbourne / adds to the sculptural event that driving / on Melbourne’s motorways has become. / Luckily this one has not opened yet so / capturing the noise barrier reflections minus / traffic was a plus….
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The excavator, the wall, the cloud and the bright / orange pole caught my eye while riding along the / new Eastlink tollway in Melbourne’s East (which is just / as well, otherwise eastlink in Melbourne’s west wouldn’t / seem right:) This new 39km tollway will have sculpture’s all along its route. Check out the designs here
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The sculpture is: / ‘Public Art Strategy” / Description / Fabricated steel, 19 / metres long, 13 metres / high and 7.5 metres / wide at the wing span. / Location / Adjacent to southbound / carriageway, between / Cheltenham Road and / Dandenong Bypass. / “…A story about pl ace and identity.” / “The often controversial nature of public art is my inspiration. Situated in Greater / Dandenong, the 13 metre high painted steel sculpture depicts a giant blackbird / ominously contemplating an object, part worm – part generic modernist / sculpture. Continuing my interest in working with ideas and iconic structures, / I have named the sculpture “Public Art Strategy”. Appropriating various aspects / of Melbourne’s most famous outdoor sculptures, the work is a ‘cut and paste’ / of the City’s public art. Bruce Armstrong’s Eagle, DCM’s Melbourne Gateway, / Inge King’s Forward Surge, Clement Meadmore’s Dervish, Peter Cortlett’s Tarax / Play Sculpture and Ron Robertson Swann’s Vault are all referenced in Public Art / Strategy. I am interested in how the City’s public art icons might come together / to tell a story about place and identity.” — Emily Floyd
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In the same vain as the story about the Great Wall of China being built to keep the rabbits out:) Melbourne’s Great Flyscreen Wall is being built to keep the fly’s out. Seen here during construction in Ringwood, it should be completed in time for next Summer:) /
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This was taken today – / Open day for Eastlink Freeway – / 15 June 2008 This was open for people walking, running, skating, riding you name it. / Not cars – Doesn’t open until the 29th for automobiles / to go on …...
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Merged photos taken along the Eastern Freeway from Ringwood to Melbourne
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On the 15th of June 2008 Melbourne’s newest Tollway had an open day when visitors could walk the two 1.6km long tunnels and generally check out their newest road. The $2.5 billion, 39km road opened on the 26th of June after a 39 month construction period involving 13,000 workers. It is estimated the road will turnover almost 1 million a day until 2043 when it will revert to a public thorough fare. The current labour government was swept into power back in 1999 due in no small part to their promise to keep eastlink toll free. Shortly after winning and despite promises from the federal government to help fund the project to the tune of $500 million (as I remember) if it was kept toll free, they backflipped on their promise claiming the economy couldn’t afford it. Unfortunately the new and inexperienced treasurer did his math wrong with the government ending up 1.2 billion in the black that financial year alone (as I remember), rendering the unaffordable excuse obsolete. By the time this was worked out however the contracts with the builders had been signed and it’s destiny as an expensive tollroad had been asphalted in place. For those familiar with the iconic Melbourne cartoonist Leunig, I reckon the silhouette looks like Mr Curly Now that the road is open taking a shot from this position would be illegal and dangerous, glad I had the opportunity to take it, my two girls are in the shot too. / / For other shots in this genre check out my Urban Landscapes gallery.
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Roadworks on Police Road bridge over Eastlink Freeway, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia – Big Mack truck.
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Roadworks on Police Road bridge over Eastlink Freeway, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia – Big Mack truck.
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Roadworks on Police Road bridge over Eastlink Freeway, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia – Green Container.
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Roadworks on Police Road bridge over Eastlink Freeway, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia – Hoist.
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A small shrub growing on new freeway bridge foundation.
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Eastlink freeway, Melbourne
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Noise barrier at Eastlink freeway, Melbourne
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Playing with my imagination and with some of the Eastlink pedestrian bridge infrastructure.
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Eastlink, Melbourne This sat for a while before I revisited it… / (update: revisited again to remove a distraction)
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Eastlink freeway exit ranp. I have mixed feelings about freeways. I sometimes look down on them.
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by markhigginsContinuing my love affair with the M3 / .....from the toll free bike path:)
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View from a freeway entrance ramp in Melbourme’s outer east.
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Taken last sunday – not the wedding i was doing!!! On the way to it.
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I have been passing this tree from Eastlink for so long now that I finally made a special trip out to take some photos. Treated as other recent tree images in Photoshop with layers of my some of my other images. Oh I did also originally use Photomatrix as I had taken 3 exposures, but I do not think this made much difference to the final result.
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Eastlink is Melbourne’s newest Tollway and is 39km long and cost $2.5 billion. It opened on the 26th of June 2008 after a 39 month construction period involving 13,000 workers. It is estimated the road will turnover almost 1 million a day until 2043 when it will revert to a public thorough fare. The current labor government was swept into power back in 1999 due in no small part to their promise to keep eastlink toll free. Shortly after winning and despite promises from the federal government to help fund the project to the tune of $500 million (as I remember) if it was kept toll free, they back-flipped on their promise claiming the economy couldn’t afford it. Unfortunately the new and inexperienced treasurer did his math wrong with the government ending up 1.2 billion in the black that financial year alone (as I remember), rendering the unaffordable excuse obsolete. By the time this was worked out however the contracts with the builders had been signed and it’s destiny as an expensive toll-road had been asphalted in place. Camera: Canon EOS 5D mkII / Lens: EF24-70 f/2.8L USM @ 24mm / Filter: UV / ISO: 100 / Shutter Speed: 25 sec / Aperture: f/8 / WB: Auto / When: 10:45pm on 11/3/09 The moon had one of those cool rainbow halos you sometimes see when it shines through cloud although this aspect was hard to record. I also would have preferred the moon to be a bit further away from the bridge to balance the composition a bit more but there was a giant sign in the way, doh. For other shots in this genre check out my Urban Landscapes gallery.
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