Another chapter in our ongoing series about The Arrogance of Space. This photo was taken by a friend flying to Cape Town. We are not familiar with the specifics of the location - probably near the airport - but that doesn’t stop us from slapping our Arrogance of Space filter onto the photo. It’s a badass intersection - the kind that makes old school traffic engineers feel all warm and fuzzy. It’s a monster of extreme arrogance. Let’s face it… if you have space for vendors to stroll down the car lanes (top centre), your lanes are arrogantly wide.
The great thing about this photo is that the cars do the work for us. On the photo at left, the whiteish areas rarely see any car tire action. In the photo at right, we just did a simple "colour replace", removing the darkened trajectories of the cars with a more noticeable colour. At right you can see clearly that it is a classic, textbook example of The Arrogance of Space.