[boris]

For some reason I cannot get the pics to display. Click on the link to see the "artwork".

[Orual]

This is the video. Wish we could hire him to do something about the signs on the Long Island Expressway. What a terrific idea he had.

[Leisler]

Maybe we could raise taxes some more and have highly paid professionals and government engineers figure...oh...ya..right. Nevermind, back to my crypto serf job.

[Alberta's Child]

With all due respect, this doesn't exactly sound like "art" to me -- the guy simply exposed the engineers at CALTRANS as dopes by doing their job better than they did.

[Wright is right!]

Took him two years of planning and execution, just to make up an I-5 sign to exact DOT/Caltrans specs? Heck, you can buy(if you know where to look) interstate highway sign BLANKS and add your own numerals and reflectors. They make 'em in all the standard sizes, one of which is the size CalTrans used on this signage.

So, this "artist" lamented that it would take TWO YEARS to get CalTrans to change the signs. How, 'zackly, is it better that HE changed the sign - and it took HIM two years?

Michael

[another cricket]

It is a nice idea but I don't know that I would call it "art."

a.cricket

[Kermit]

"Caltrans officials had discussed adding more directional signs, but the agency spokeswoman said she is not sure why the department never followed through."

Ahhhh, that's the point. The guy knew the bureaucrats wouldn't do anything, so he did it himself. I've been there and missed the turn and that was a decade ago.