I vaguely remember hearing about this story years ago and very randomly came across a web article about it, so I figured I'd share some links.
Back in 2001, artist Richard Ankrom fabricated his own freeway sign to the exact Caltrans specifications and hung it up himself in broad daylight. He did both as guerrilla art piece and to help ease traffic in downtown Los Angeles. Remarkably, it took 9 months to break the news story and Caltrans didn't do anything about it because the signs really did help ease traffic.
The sign remained for about EIGHT YEARS until Caltrans finally went around replacing / updating signs.
Read about it here and here. Awesome story overall.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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I've wanted more information about this...thanks!
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