Ocean City NJ - So let me get this straight. There is a place in New Jersey where people a) live on a bicycle boulevard and b) paint murals in the street?
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Sunnyside Piazza in Portland Oregon
The famous flower in the street at SE 33rd and Yamhill in Portland Oregon was the inspiration for a street mural recently completed on New Jersey's first bicycle boulevard Haven Avenue in Ocean City, NJ.
These strategies which have taken hold in a progressive resort community can also be applied to inner city streets. Imagine if Camden or Newark decided to make their streets seem friendlier with bicycle boulevards and street murals.
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This is great! New Haven, CT will soon be doing its first "intersection repair," in front of the city's main hospital.
Great to have a NJ example to show my town council. I have been proposing this for quite some time in Montclair. Although the Township Engineer is behind it - especially if materials and time are donated - our council has a hard time with things like this. I'd like to consider creating traffic calming murals on the various 4-way stop intersections (recently installed) as well as in school zones. When we grow up, I'd like to paint a mural on Bloomfield Ave - Oh, Essex County, Please open your mind!
Anyone else going for something like this?
Laura Torchio
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