SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV)– Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh announced a street art project designed by students of STEAM at Dr. King Elementary.
The art was showcased at the school on Martin Luther King Boulevard. The temporary pavement mural is part of a federally funded planning project to improve connectivity in the Southside Interstate 81 corridor in the area where the highway viaduct will come down.
People from the community volunteered, along with City of Syracuse staff and members of the planning grant team, to paint asphalt art on Martin Luther King Boulevard across from the school parking lot between Oakwood Avenue and Leon Street.
The artwork was designed by Dr. King’s fifth-grade students. The goal of the project is to show how low-cost measures can lower speeds and make the roadways safer for all who use them, all while celebrating the community and the students…