The Reedy Creek Pedestrian Bridge stretches across the 440 Beltline carrying the House Creek Greenway. The three steel arches join the trail network on the grounds of the North Carolina Museum of Art with the rest of the greenway, which follows the outer perimeter of the Meredith College campus.
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The bat signal is a modified spotlight to project the iconic bat symbol into the sky or onto a building to contact and request the presence of Batman in the case of an emergency. The Obama signal above appears to indicate we are in an emergency and his assistance is needed to get us out of it.

(Thanks, Ginny for the tip)

UPDATE 10/23/08

The light is no longer shining on Exchange Plaza:

The Barack Obama “bat signal” is now pointing at the east side of the Masonic Temple. According to Mark Turner,

a Raleigh police sergeant wandered into my $WORK offices to ask if we were responsible for the Obama signal. He wasn’t surprised when I told him no, and said “everybody’s been denying it.” I got the impression he was dutifully going through the motions but given the million other things RPD has to do it wasn’t exactly his highest priority.

Do we really have the Raleigh Police Department out in search of the person broadcasting the bat signal? Is that really the best way our law enforcement resources can be allocated? Sheesh.

Tucked underneath a nondescript building off of Salisbury Street across from the Wachovia tower lies Tha Basement Studios. They specialize in both recording and producing. They just recently opened for business, and offer sessions for $40 per hour.

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