The roadworkers stirred red food coloring into their concrete mix!
Imagine how bleak and awful we might perceive this area to be, if the crosswalk weren't pink.
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In downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on May 22nd, 2023, a view of overpasses on Interstate 380 and Iowa Highway 27 ("Avenue of the Saints") from the south corner of A Avenue NE and 2nd Street NE.
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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• Linn (county) (2000617)
Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:
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Wikidata items:
• 22 May 2023 (Q69306807)
• all-way stop (Q13583377)
• Avenue of the Saints (Q1192631)
• Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA Combined Statistical Area (Q119518428)
• Eastern Iowa (Q14214551)
• Interstate 380 (Q1482539)
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• tactile paving (Q884259)
• Treaty with the Sauk and Foxes, 1837 (Q119518273)