April 2004 | Eyesore

Commentary on architectural blunders in monthly serial.

Note all the design intelligence that went into this urban bike trail in Santa Monica, California. The striping delivers you to a bicycle death trap at the intersection with a three-way change in surface. Take your pick: cement, loose gravel in a ditch, or sewer grid. The time has really come to change our national motto from E Pluribus Unum to It's the Thought That Counts!