Vancouver’s new manhole cover designs unveiled

Vancouver’s sewers  will be gussied up with two manhole cover designs.

This is one of the winning designs.

See the other winning design here.

Imagine the agony of city works if the compass design had been chosen. I don’t know east from west. Some OCD citizen would insist that the compass point in the right direction.

On a related note, go here for kinda-sorta related info about manhole covers.

If you missed the news articles about Vancouver’s manhole art project, go here for the Terminal City article or go here for the Globe and Mail’s review or you can go here for the Vancouver Sun article (All the articles are in PDF format.)

Who will make sure no autos run over those HMmmm seekers of manholes?
Which manhole design HMmmm’d you the most?

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