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Southern California highway honors region’s railroad heritage
I read somewhere that San Bernardino is bankrupt. I wonder why.
seems like this is a California State Department of Transportation project, with San Bernardino having nothing to do with it. I guess money is always more important than art.
I’d rather see this or some other decorative touch to the concrete walls other than a slab of cold hardened rock… I never saw anything that mentioned San Bernardino had anything to do with this project.
Yes San Bernardino is in the process of filing papers with the court to exit bankruptcy. As for why too many reason to fit in the space here, Next question how long before the taggers hit these & like walls along this roadway,
K.P Harrier post some pics on the next wall!!
The city of San Bernardino is bankrupt; the county is not, and the contributions of San Bernardino and Riverside counties are financed by voter-approved transportation bond issues funded by county-wide sales tax increases. Both counties have significant expansion of passenger rail service as part of their improvement projects.
I am struck by the irony here…artwork commemorating the passenger train which the freeways helped kill, and the double stack train dedicated to getting trucks off the same freeway. Let’s hope the taggers leave them alone.
Looks more like boxcars than stacks. Oh well, a box is a box…
I appreciate seeing this type of artwork showing up on roadways and pedestrian/bikeways around the country.
‘Kudos’ to you Eric, I think it’s just plain ‘COOL’, MAN !! I applaud the artistic thought and effort that went into this project !!
Now just some matching paint to go on those train sculptures on the wall might help even more to deter graffiti artists, too.