Joe Linton, artist and organizer for the L.A. walking and biking
event CicLAvia, has lived by the busy intersection at Koreatown’s Eco
Village apartment building for 16 years. He rallied neighbors to paint
an enormous road mural in 2005. After the road was repaved in 2009,
Linton and about 100 others took to the street again, repainting the
brightly colored, Olympic-pool sized creation. Linton, pictured here,
said he asked City Council members for support but was denied a permit.
He moved forward anyway.
The result: “I think it really works to slow cars
down,” Linden said of the mural at the T intersection of Bimini Place
and White House Place. He said the artwork helps to take drivers out of
their typical “just-have-to-get-to-their-destination” frame of mind and
makes them realize that “streets are public spaces where people can
really interact. This was a way of reclaiming some of that space back
for people who aren’t in cars.” The paint faded over time, Linden said,
so “we refreshed it and added new parts last March.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2012/07/traffic-slowing-methods.html
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