A vast junkyard marking the place where modernity crashed and burned, the J.G. Ballard Memorial Freeway runs through
Down and intersects the
Big Active tower, where
JG's Toque-N-Tank is located.
Also located on the freeway is [Papa Legba]?, headquarters of the Strange Medical Corps.
Directions
From the Nexus: down, freeway
Description
You stand on a ribbon of cracked and broken asphalt, a boneyard of broken
machines, the grave of a mad dream of speed. The freeway's twenty crumbling
lanes are littered with the metal carcasses of a myriad crashed and burned
vehicles, the debris of some unthinkable catastrophe -- thousands of cars,
trucks, motor vehicles of all kinds from a hundred ages and technologies;
even, incomprehensibly, the enormous hulks of aircraft and spacecraft, their
wings broken, silver skin gone dull with rust and age. Fragments of broken
glass, plastic and metal litter the road, and various fuels and lubricants
have run like blood from ruptured tanks and engines, pooling in the potholes
in the blacktop, and sometimes reacting with one another -- which explains the
occasional plumes of yellowish, acrid vapor.
The highway signs, bold white sans serif on dark green, are riddled with
bullet holes. You still manage to make out most of the text, but instead of
locations, strange slogans are printed, along with numbers for nonexistent
exits.
6A - Put A Tiger In Your Tank. N32 - Better Living Through Chemistry. FF - The
Ultimate Driving Machine. 12.5 - Quality Is Job One.
Attractions | Downwarp