the "wiener" approach to solving the pothole problem

[eddief]

maybe time to take a spray can on your next ride:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3045488/...t=feedburner#2

[Louis]

Someday those will be worth tens of thousands of £

[ultraman6970]

Gonna have to start doing that here.

[SlowPokePete]

Too funny...

You'd go through a lot of spray paint around here.

SPP

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by eddief

maybe time to take a spray can on your next ride:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3045488/...t=feedburner#2

There's a place on Arapahoe here in the republic, where the on street bike lane transitions to an 'on sidewalk' bike lane. As you go to the sidewalk, there is a raised portion of the curb that is almost invisible. I smacked it recently..took pictures and sent it to the street goons here. They said, 'too bad so sad'. I mentioned I'm gonna go out and paint it red or yellow..and they mentioned being arrested for vandalism...should have just painted the damn thing.

[tumbler]

"I wanted to attract attention to the pothole and make it memorable," Wanksy told MEN. "Nothing seemed to do this better than a giant comedy phallus."

We should start an activist wing of Paceline to paint giant dancing bananas (mildly phallic) around potholes to see if it has the same effect.

[gemship]

That really would be a lot of spray paint but it would be fun to paint dicks on the road

[AJosiahK]

Haha wow.

Whole new level of street 'art'

[Lewis Moon]

Aren't there enough dicks on the road already?

[Veloo]

I'll put on my black ninja kit and do this for Toronto late at night.

[eippo1]

Great idea. Also chaulk is mostly quiet unlike spraypaint, so even better.

[Saint Vitus]

Awesome! A whole new art movement!

[572cv]

This public protest was extremely well considered. The Wanksy reference to Banksy, the famous UK graffiti artist, is droll and anticipated the bunch of wankers in public office who immediately decried the images (pardon me if my use of another nation's swear word is incorrectly done). The use of chalk or crayons avoided the moral stigma of defacement. It washes off. The issue highlighted was a public frustration that could be immediately obvious to anyone. And it got results.


I hope that this kind of creativity and fundamentally intelligent effort can be inspiring to the cycling community. Someone posted that great Canadian cycling promotional video recently (couldn't remember the heading). What else can be done to cleverly, and with humor, improve safely, tolerance, and respect on all of our highways and byways?

(1K posts, hey!)

[JAllen]

572cv congrats on a grand of posts.


Man the city of Portland would be one gigantic wiener. Two streets right around the corner from me have NEVER been paved. Ever.

[eddief]

a couple of our guys scour the entire route and attempt to mark every seemingly dangerous crack and pothole with orange spray paint. Maybe next year each crack should become a Wanksy