Human Flower Project

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

That’s No Garden, It’s a Billboard

Highway projects all are riding the brakes. Will flowering logos be the detour around federal laws?

Sales pitch, this exit ~ Vegetative advertising
Photo: via Scenic America

Gas prices have done what poison air and green-zeal never managed. They’ve actually curtailed driving in the U.S. While our sympathies go out to tire patchers, we and lots of others think this is change for the better (right, yes, it took having a gun to our heads.)

Here’s the rub. Revenues from the high tax on fuel are what maintain state and federal highways. With sales of gasoline unexpectedly lower, hundreds of transportation improvements that are underway or were scheduled have stalled now.

And some see the shortfall as an opportunity to revive a rather ghastly human flower project. 

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