A friend in New York alerted me to this item. It does seem that authorised DIY road painting is starting to blossom in cities across the US. It's been going on in Portland, Ocean City, and now Brooklyn. Given its ambitions for permanence, our proposed street pattern painting is just that much further evolved. I sort of like the idea of a street in Oxford being culturally 'ahead' of Brooklyn...
Paint the Pavement With Brooklyn Students, May 15, 2009
Students from the Community Roots Charter School will be out in the street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., working on a new mural covering the street in front of their school, and volunteers are welcome to join in. The mural painting is the joint handiwork of DOT's Urban Art Program, Livable Streets Education, and local artists and teachers. Sound unusual? It is. We're told this may be the first time NYCDOT has ever approved a pavement painting project.
While DOT isn't calling the mural a street reclamation, the spirit is similar to Portland's "intersection repair" and Ocean City's "traffic safety quilt". Those projects created can't-miss patterns for drivers to slow down and look out for people. Let's hope that tomorrow's pavement painting is the first of many.
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