Trans Am Totem

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You can barely even see it with all the trees in that "park".

Residents push back against new location for Trans Am Rapture art installation

Nearly four years later, its relocation is drawing backlash with some residents saying it doesn't belong in a quiet residential area.

"They're treating our neighbourhood as a storage locker for a piece of art they don't know what to do with," said Darlene Forst, who lives across the street from the installation site and started an online petition against the move.

Forst said she only learned about the installation a couple of days ago through a notice that arrived in the mail. She believes the city should have consulted with residents before approving a decade-long placement of the piece.

"It's gigantic and dominating," she said. "It's going to change the feeling of the neighbourhood from…family friendly and it's going to make it edgy and really not friendly."

She also raised concerns about the sculpture's past problems, including bird infestation, which led to rusting, peeling paint and bird droppings.

"I will just see a bunch of crushed cars, which … is going to end up being covered in birds and rusting and dropping guano all over the grass and killing the grass."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c...ns-am-rapture-art-installation-1.7595214