City seeks art for rail stations

Source: Ottawa Sun

The mayor wants to see some useful art at LRT stations. The LRT project is reserving 1% of hard infrastructure costs for public art. The city estimates the art funding will be $10 million. Artists should think outside the box, Watson suggests. “It doesn’ ...
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BAY RIDGE: Cart-tastrophe! Ridge merchant group snubs offer to have vendor-blocking benches removed

Source: Brooklyn Paper

A Bay Ridge merchant has offered to pay to have the benches illegally bolted onto Fifth Avenue removed, but the local Business Improvement District has turned down the offer. Email to a friend A Fifth Avenue merchant opposed to street ve ...
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council_spoke commented City centre street improvements set for start

Source: This is Bath

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Jobsworths ban Jubilee bunting: Council insists lampposts must be 'stress tested' to hold paper flags as part of health and safety

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Killjoy council chiefs have banned Jubilee bunting from town centre lamp posts - over health and safety fears. Traders in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, planned to hang several hundred feet of flags along the Hi ...
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Bunting on lamp posts ruled out

Source: Belfast Telegraph

Bunting cannot be hung from lamp posts or street furniture due to health and safety fears, a town has been told. The Chamber of Trade in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, hoped to hang several hundred metres of patriotic bunting betwee ...
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Town faces lamp-post bunting ban

Source: BBC News

24 May 2012 Last updated at 09:33 ET Traders in Burnham want to decorate the high street with bunting to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Bunting cannot be hung along the high street lamp-posts in a Somerset town due to health ...
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Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: Street Art, Bomb Scares, and Times of Anxiety

Source: The Huffington Post

Last Friday morning all was going normally on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn as the cool, crisp breeze of a sunny May day made New York as it often is: Glorious. Up and down the sidewalk smartly dressed professionals hurriedly carried coffee ...
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Hammersmith Broadway to get £500k makeover; businesses pleased

Source: Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle

CASH contributed by Westfield to spruce up Hammersmith Broadway is finally going to be used, five years after it was allocated. The owners of the giant Shepherd's Bush shopping mall handed £500,000 to each of the bor ...
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£4m revamp of Victoria Road takes off

Source: Uxbridge Gazette

The two-year, £4million revamp of Victoria Road, in Ruislip Manor, and Joel Street, in Northwood Hills, is set to start this month. New street furniture, lighting, trees and planting, signage, redesigned shop fro ...
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