mo wrote:when we were driving into the melb the other day (I'm from shitney) there were all these pillars along the freeway and they were lined up along the side of the road and yeah... i'll try get some footage cos we took videos of it.
Apparently they're
supposed to resemble a kind of zipper opening up as you're travelling down the freeway entering Melbourne.
There are, however, more colloquial names for most of these artistic pillar thingies. Some of them have more than one.
The yellow one is sometimes called the "cheese-stick" by locals. The red ones have been called "dinosaur bones" (among other things).
After passing the pillars there is a section of freeway partially enclosed in an oval-shaped section of curving metal pillars & supports, supposedly as a sound-reducing device for homes in surrounding suburbs.
Everyone I know just calls it the "time tunnel".
I don't have any pictures but I'll try to find some.