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Did you realize you can rearrange the letters in "tar" to spell "art," yes you can. Here's a  bitumen "sketch" by a City of Vancouver road crew, that runs for several blocks. Yes, I know they did this to seal cracks in the asphalt, but it looks like crazy fun, all the same -- I sure hope it was.

I like these new pedestrian countdown timer signals being installed through the City of Vancouver; there's nothing wrong with a little extra certainty where traffic is concerned. Even better would be if The Coast Mountain Bus Co., aka Translink, would put a similar countdown timer on the rear end of all their transit buses, so a driver, or cyclist, would have an idea how long a particular bus planned to sit at a bus stop; sometimes it's stop, drop, and go, and other times it's 5 minutes -- you never know, and they can pull away from the curb quite quickly. A little more certainty wouldn't hurt, but getting hit by a bus would.