Artist Improves California Freeway Sign

A confusing Los Angeles free way sign so disturbed one local artist that he took matters into his own hands by scaling the sign and adding his own directions.
For years, Richard Ankrom, 46, knew that the word ‘NORTH’ should have been included over an emblem for Interstate 5, two miles before the exit from the Harbor Freeway.
Finally last August Akrom went to work donning a hard hat and orange reflective vest to avoid raising suspicion. His pickup truck had a logo on the side that read: Aesthetic De Construction.
He had studied freeway signs and specifications of the Federal Highway Administration and had tracked down reflective material for the letters. The work is so genuine that the state transportation officials couldn’t tell, until a newspaper leaked the story.
Best of all,there are no plans to take down the sign or press charges. “It needed to be done,” Akrom said. “Hopefully it will help people out, which was the whole point.”
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