In the City of Cambridge, Mass. (which some people call the East Coast Berkeley), they had a problem with aggressive driving through a particular intersection. In typical liberal fashion, they decided to deal with this problem by paying $10,000 in taxpayer money to an artist to paint a “rotary mural” on the road. This was supposed to calm drivers down.
The city’s Arts Council recently paid a local artist $10,000 to paint the rotary on the intersection of Walden and Reservoir streets and Vassal Lane.
The 20-foot art circle is supposed to help calm traffic by forcing drivers to slow down to drive around or across the rotary at a slower speed.
Residents have criticized the West Coast-inspired idea and many motorists are ignoring the painted mural and speeding by the makeshift rotary.
The art circle was loosely based on the Portland, Ore., project “City Repair,” according to Susanne Rasmussen, director of environmental and transportation planning for Cambridge.
That’s right, the Arts Council fixing traffic problems. As one commenter told the reporter, they would have been better off giving the 10 grand to the local schools for art supplies.
Methinks the Arts Council is overfunded if they have money to throw away on stuff like this.
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