The Asphalt Art Initiative aims to improve pedestrian safety by painting eye-grabbing murals on street pavement, they will award grants grants of $25,000 to 19 European cities for this work. The project supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and The Aspen Institute was announced on Monday in Amsterdam at a CityLab summit.
An art project in Kansas City MO reduced traffic crashes 49%, adding color to
curbs in Baltimore Maryland reduced traffic speeds by 45% (Bloomberg CityLab Article). The street safety record in Europe is far better than the United States (Bloomberg City Lab).
More examples of Street Art are found here.
These Art interventions could improve Laguna's atrocious traffic safety record. Would the city of Laguna Beach be so bold? Would the Laguna developers adopt philanthropic projects like Bloomberg?
-LS
This is awesome Les using the black-gray system canvas to have humans express their creativity. Thanks Les #TheSmartofArt
ReplyDeleteFirst the City has to get control of PCH as other beach cities have done. Then, sure! Some CC candidates are entirely in favor of getting both LCR and PCH out of the incompetent hands of Caltrains. Let’s elect them.
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