The large public works project known as the PortMiami Tunnel has a ceremonial opening today and this article contains some interesting facts about the tunnel and its construction. There are also a few oddities that defy explanation. Click title for link. Here are a couple:
Q. What is all that weird Klingon-looking writing on the portal at the tunnel entrance?
The Latin conjugations of the verb “navigate.”
Q. Latin’s been a dead language for about a thousand years. Do the tunnel guys think it’s coming back?
“I’m sure there was a reason for the portal design,” says Hodgkins diplomatically. “But it’s above my pay grade.”
Q. What are those black-box thingies at the tunnel entrances? They don’t look like cameras.
They’re infrared detectors. One measures height and triggers alarms if a vehicle is taller than 15 feet, the height of the tunnel. Another checks on air quality and carbon dioxide emissions.
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