Caption Contest: TxDOT’s Shiny Happy People Sucking in Highway Exhaust
This rendering of State Highway 45 Southwest in Austin -- one of 12 highway boondoggles singled out by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group this year -- inspired some mockery on Twitter:
12:49 PM EST on January 22, 2016
This rendering of State Highway 45 Southwest in Austin — one of 12 highway boondoggles singled out by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group this year — inspired some mockery on Twitter:
@StreetsblogNet @uspirg “Just gonna go walk the dog out by the highway, honey!” — Parker (@EnergyWarning) January 21, 2016
And that got us thinking… Caption contest! Give us your entry in the comments and we’ll choose a winner.
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.
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