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Originally Posted by SnellKrell
I have never understood the logic behind the memorial, tribute lights emanating from the top of a garage, 6 blocks south of Ground Zero.
Why couldn't this temporary installation be on a flatbed parked alongside
of the Trade Center site? After all, the lights are meant to represent the Twin Towers.
If anyone has the answer, please let me know.
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1) There simply isn't enough space alongside the WTC site. The streets certainly wouldn't be large enough, even if they could all be closed for an installation.
2)The tribute lights memorial started very shortly after the attacks, at the 6-month anniversary. Ground Zero at the time was still Ground Zero, so adding a large memorial, even temporary, so close to active work would have been a non-starter.
3) As time went on, Ground Zero became a construction site, also not really a place to put a large memorial.
4) I always thought it would be cool to put the lights around the fountains themselves; they would at least be to scale (currently the lights don't match the actual tower footprint size), but adding a bunch of floodlights and associated wiring/cabling to a memorial on the actual event's anniversary when people want to pay their respects is a terrible idea.
5) From a distance, the effect works well enough. Maybe not for us skyscraper aficionados who can pinpoint each building in the skyline, but it works.
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