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What do street lights, crosswalks, curbs and public safety have to do with artists? Artists usually use construction paper, not construction departments. But in Vermont, an unusual collaboration between a state highway department and a small bedroom community and its Arts Council will result in the aesthetic relocation of a major state highway in exactly the way the small town would like to have it done. More than 10 years in the planning, the Danville Project of Danville, Vt., will relocate Route 2 through Danville with plans hashed out among state transportation officials, town leaders and state artists. Over the years, Route 2 has been widened and improved, but the Danville section has yet to be addressed. According to official estimates, this utilitarian work of concrete and steel artistry in this tiny town in the northeast corner of Vermont, near the New Hampshire line, will cost approximately $8 million when finished. According to Kenneth E. Robie, project manager of the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), program development division, “This project, involving the reconstruction of Route 2 through the village, had a much greater level of coordination with the town than would have occurred outside of the village. It is a curbed section with a closed drainage system and includes roadside aspects such as sidewalk, lighting and landscaping. There is also a component of town highway reconstruction around the village
green. There is also the artistic enhancement component, which is unique to this project.” This project encourages creative solutions to engineering problems surrounding the design and maintenance of infrastructure. The Danville Project proves that including artists in the process is a natural fit, due to their unique visioning and communication skills, and ability to articulate a community’s hopes and dreams. Many of the lessons learned in this small town are already being applied on other planning projects in the state. Robie said that the Danville Project is currently in the property acquisition phase. “We anticipate that phase being complete sometime next spring,” said Robie. “We will then complete the contract plans and specifications and advertise for construction. This [phase] will likely result in a construction start, sometime in late summer [2010]. We anticipate the construction will take two full construction seasons with a third year of landscape maintenance.” Right of Way Issues Robie said that the project development process is lengthy and often unpredictable, “due to influences outside of our control. Of note with this project has been the development of right-of-way [ROW] plans from which we acquire the necessary property and rights of access. There are over 50 affected parcels on the project. “Also, due to budget constraints, the project was reviewed see DANVILLE page 8