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the city's polite admission that two paths refuse to compromise.
means A passage or road that runs beneath another road, railway, or obstacle, letting traffic or pedestrians cross under rather than over.
from A transparent English compound of "under" plus "pass" — "pass" coming from Latin passus, "a step," via Old French. It's the younger sibling of "overpass," born of the same engineering age that needed words for roads stacked on roads; both are practical 20th-century coinages, the language simply pointing up or down.
- echo trap
- Curved concrete amplifies whispers into eavesdropping range
- flood risk
- Low points drown first in heavy rain
- art canvas
- Graffiti's preferred gallery, lit by passing headlights
- pigeon penthouse
- Ledges house generations of unbothered birds
- sound design
- Buskers chase its natural reverb for free acoustics
gowanus expressway underpass — brooklyn, new york's notorious low-clearance underpass at 11 feet 6 inches that has destroyed thousands of trucks since 1964
clapham common underpass — london pedestrian underpass where serial killer dr. crippen was captured in 1910
viaduct underpass delhi — delhi's rajpath underpass where the 2012 gang rape survivor was found, catalyzing india's #metoo movement