TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Colorful artwork could soon return to Tallahassee, even after it was removed at the request of the Florida Department of Transportation. <\/p>\n
Crosswalk art across Tallahassee was removed, including at Hartsfield Elementary.<\/p>\n
However, some of that artwork is going back up, just in a different way.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd everybody was very upset when it got removed. What we\u2019re excited to see is that that crosswalk art will get put back into the school. So it will go up through fence art,\u201d said Betsy Couch, the executive director for KCCI.<\/p>\n
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Art across the state and capital city was removed at the request of FDOT, which said public streets couldn\u2019t be used for that purpose, though critics argued the state was targeting political messages it didn\u2019t like. <\/p>\n
Now KCCI is working with Leon County Schools for a workaround at Hartsfield Elementary and perhaps other areas of town in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople were upset because thousands of people had been a part of creating all of those crosswalks in their neighborhoods. So we heard from the community of what they wanted to bring back into their schools,\u201d Couch said.<\/p>\n
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