5 August 2007

GDE What the ...?

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I was out for a ride today and stumbled upon the following structures on the side of the GDE just behind Calvary. What are they? Artwork? Legitimate construction? Or construction workers mucking around?

GDE structure

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according to the CT article, “The artwork, which has yet to be completed, cost $750,000 but the overall cost incorporated some structures in the roadworks…..”

More money wasted by this Stanhope government when there are bigger issues at stake – water supply, health services etc. Some of these silly buggers need to get there heads out of their #*ses and get agrip on the real world ffs.

Canberra Times steals your story.

There is a piece in todays edition on the back pages. It is an Aboriginal interpretation (when finished) of the area.

Aboriginal artwork for the good (and at the cost) of canberrans!

astrojax – no idea what GDE has got to do with pear, except that it makes Google go nuts.

Here’s an interesting link though – Thumper especially will love it. http://www.etno-muzej.si/pdf/0354-0316_09_1_sikimic_nasilna.pdf

Cause of all the indigenous relics they moved offsite…

Boom boom.

Could it be that sculptures of pears are usually placed in areas that have been used for the cultivation of pears since antiquity?Considering the fact that the AIS now stands on an old farm that had an extensive grove of pears I reckon this might be it.
More likely a coincidental piece of public art however. Still pays to dream.

what’s a ‘gde’?

mebbe these pairs are a match to the set outside the national gallery – which were once on campus at anu until pranksters – bless ’em – were wont to roll them away and make uni ground staff search for them and return them…

wait til the pranksters see this challenge!

Who was it that was bemoaning the fact that Canberra didn’t have enough monuments ?

More proof for the idiot.

Gungahlin Al12:57 pm 06 Aug 07

Perhaps they are there to remind any public transport users (nay – road users in general) that transport in the ACT is heading pear-shaped under the vision vacuum that is the Ministerialship of John Hargreaves?

When the road was just beginning to become functional, I hope the whole GDE doesn’t end up going pear shaped!

VYBerlinaV8 now_with_added grunt11:44 am 06 Aug 07

It was deemed a better use of local govco funds to build monuments to pears rather than constructing a road capable of handling the anticipated traffic volume.

They had to put the rocks on a tower, otherwise residents would have flogged them for their gardens. Don’t you people know anything ?

They look like they could be descended from the daleks to me. We’re doomed.

OTOH…Stanhope government vs. subjugation by giant mutant pears.

Hmm…..tough choice. Not sure I’d be able to tell the difference.

I hate to break it to you, but wombats lack the ability to construct something so big. They don’t have thumbs to help them hold construction tools. A monkey on the other hand…

they look pretty dangerous to me. the light pole in the picture is designed to fail when hit by a car, that weird thing looks like a tank trap.

Reminds me of Wombats do to mark their territory. Eats root and leaves. When is John Stanhope leaving?

Perhaps they are there to distract folk while stuck the slow moving GDE morning Traffic ?
* shrug *

It’s obviously the beginnings of our very own “Pear-World”.

It is something to lean your bike on when taking photos

Need a lot of port to poach them – and then a lot of crackers and camenbert and brie to enjoy them.

2 pears. Look in the distance. There’s another one.

So exactly how many of these giant pears are lurking out on the GDE waiting to swoop on unsuspecting Canberrans?

This town just gets stranger and stranger everyday.

Could it be a gigantic over-ripe pear?

To reinforce the sense of crushed down hopelessness felt by the masses, caught in a Sisyphussian struggle between ACT politicians and the hill of good government.

Too much? Nah, it’s got everything: Karl Marx to set off Ralph, Greek mythology for the intellectuals, and a political metaphor to boot. One for the pool room.

Looks like the beginnings of another revenue raiser, er, I mean ‘road safety’ device/speed camera. Not sure what the large stone on top is for though.

Stanhope spening your tax dollars to immortalise himself.

Yeah, I saw those yesterday – assumed it was just art.

(Maybe it’s The Big Pear)

Could be some bizarre throwback to a railway water tower?

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