Orange Barrel Art Squashes Summer Road Work Tension

Is summer road work giving drivers in your town the blues? Turn those orange barrels into smile makers with this creative idea from one Wisconsin city.

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STEVENS POINT, WISC. - For those cities that are full of messages from residents complaining about road work, one Wisconsin town that is notorious for train delays offers an idea to ease drivers’ frustrations when saddled with summer construction slow downs.

The Stevens Point Area Convention and Visitors Bureau and CREATE Portage County created the Orange Barrel Art Tour and have brought it back for summer 2017 road work.

Sculptures using retired orange barrels, provided through a partnership with a local rental company, will be displayed in Stevens Point through August.

Read the original story on the Stevens Point Journal website.

Watch the making of the Squirrel Monster:

Andrea Fox is Editor of Gov1.com and Senior Editor at Lexipol. She is based in Massachusetts.