[Regular_John]

I personally think the public arts program is a pretty valuable counterbalance to the city's years of unchecked growth & sprawl during boom times. Otherwise we might be subjected to little more than drab areas of grey concrete slabs.

I think this is particularly apparent when you see the decorative elements (such as the jumping fish along Glenmore Trail) on our major thoroughfares. Details like these go a long way to making for a more "beautiful" city, and is money well spent in my opinion.

Now is every piece a winner? No absolutely not, but it seems we have 2 bad pieces up against a dozen more good pieces that do enrich the public space.