Traffic signal boxes

Redan has a number of traffic signal boxes, painted as part of a community arts project in 2011.

Location
There are now three surviving boxes, two on the south east corner of the Skipton and Darling Street intersection, and one near Skipton and Bell Streets. A fourth box at the corner of Leith Street and Skipton Street was destroyed in a motor vehicle accident. There were signal boxes painted as part of the project in various locations around Ballarat.

History
The impetus for the community art project came from Ballarat City councillor Des Husdon, a Victoria Police officer working with youth across the Ballarat region: this initiative was a result of a Crime Prevention conference I attended in Sydney where the City of Brisbane implemented the initiative to reduce public graffiti on community assets such as Traffic Signal Boxes. The project was called Signal Art. The very first box painted to kick of the project was a collaboration involving Ratartat, Lumen Christi Primary School and myself in my police youth role. The location was Skipton St and Leith St. The box was the victim of a car crash a couple of years later and is no longer there.