Traffic Calming: Art Or Liability?

A Toronto man recently decided to turn his  front yard into a work of art.  Are we talking Renaissance art?  Modern art?  Maybe more of a Picasso taste?  Not quite.  The former IT worker decided to decorate the trees in his front yard with CDs and old hard drives.

The result?  Slower traffic on his street.  Why?  Just like with collisions on the 401, people are slowing down to look!

This display is certainly catching the attention of passing motorists.  The homeowner  used to have a spaceship on his front lawn, and that certainly caught people's attention.  Lawn artwork is not an entirely unusual concept.  Although we are just entering summer, if we think ahead to December, Christmas light displays are common.