London’s Blue Bicycle Highways + Painting the Streets as Public Art?
Public Art Bike Rack in Portland Oregon - How about in Council Bluffs IA or Omaha NE?
London’s bicycle highway system opened today. Portland has neato public art bike racks. Cities are beautifying their landscapes and supporting the option to ride for transportation.
We have a great deal of interest in public art around these parts lately. Both Omaha and Council Bluffs are plopping monolithic sculptures around our towns. I am sure they will continue to do so for the forseeable future.
How can we think differently about public art – how do we connect urban beautification with urban functionality? Bike racks designed by artists is a way, the Metro Bike Blast project facilitated the creation of a number of them last year. We need more, and definitely need them on the Council Bluffs side of the river. But what about bicycle lanes?
Imagine two cities connected by a pedestrian bridge with streets painted like a Barnett Newman or Mondrian, bicycle highways of every color sprucing up the urban landscape, adding functional and forward thinking transportational conduits that signify 21st century thinking — and that are perhaps even designed by artists?
Bicycles and Public Art?
BBL riders on 10th St. Wouldn't riding be more fun on a brightly painted bicycle highway?
