This 2018 steel sculpture is by Eric Garcia and cost $655,000 in county sales taxes.

It "works" in just this one direction, eastbound, departing a string of flea markets, used tire stores and mobile home lots along Admiral Place, the 1926-32 alignment of Route 66.

The art is in a stormwater detention basin, below the busy traffic circle that surrounds it. And it's marred by a tangle of utility wires and poles.

Luckily, there's a man in a red Camaro convertible passing by, top-down, nearing sunset on a 50-degree (10 C) December day.