Video: The Good Bike Project - the most unusual flower gardens on city streets
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There is probably no such city in the world in which there would be as much greenery (in the plant sense of the word) as people would like. But there are cities that are trying to achieve this. For example, Toronto, where quite unusual flower beds - a consequence of an art project The good bike project.
I must say that both the authorities and residents of the Canadian city of Toronto have a serious desire to make their city better, to make it more beautiful and greener. Proof of this can be found in many different projects, the purpose of which is to achieve these goals. For example, the Outside the Planter project from Canadian artist Sean Martindale or the art initiative The Good Bike Project.
In Toronto, as in the rest of Canada, the bicycle is very developed as a mass urban transport. Tens of thousands of people use it to move around the city, and not cars, buses and the subway. This is useful for both people and the city. But the reverse side of this process is a huge number of bicycles abandoned on the streets for one reason or another (the bike itself broke, the lock broke, etc.)
For a long time, the city authorities of Toronto thought about what to do with this unusual garbage on the streets. And while they were thinking, the members of The Good Bike Project took action. They began to paint abandoned bicycles in bright colors and turn them into flower beds in which flowers, grass and other vegetation grow.
The first such flowerbed bike appeared near the OCAD U Student Gallery, and now there are dozens of them all over Toronto. And, if at first the Toronto authorities reacted negatively to this (after all, bicycles are private property!), Then soon they fully supported the initiative of The Good Bike Project, adopting a special law allowing to consider a bicycle abandoned for a certain long time as city property, and suggesting to use them for landscaping the city.
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