Cambridge Issues Parking Tickets With Yoga Poses To Calm Drivers

Rage is the probably the most common emotion a driver will experience when they see a parking ticket tucked under their windshield wiper.

But now, at least one town thinks they have a unique solution to calm irate, just ticketed motorists–drawings of yoga poses on parking ticket envelopes.

Hilariously, inexplicably, and possibly embarrassingly the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has recently rolled out new parking ticket envelopes with these allegedly “calming” graphics.

The concept comes from Daniel Peltz, an associate professor at Rhode Island School of Design, is a temporary “artist in residence” at the Cambridge’s Department of Traffic, Parking and Transportation, the equivalent of Chicago’s Department of Revenue.

According to a piece in the Boston Globe, Peltz spent a lot of time shadowing DTPT employees while they worked issuing tickets, booting cars, etc. and discovered “they were warm and funny people.”

This odd situation is the first product of a partnership between the Cambridge Arts Council and the Cambridge DTPT and is part of a full on art exhibit entitled Crossing Non-Signalized Locations.

This exhibit will also includes street and traffic signs used for poetry, using sewing machines to manufacture “soft boots” made of cloth to be affixed to vehicles, and a large scale drawing called “10,00 Excuses,” chronicling the excuses drivers have used while fighting Cambridge parking tickets.

According to the press release from the Arts Council, during his residency, “Peltz learned that the aim of the Department of Traffic, Parking and Transportation was to maintain flow in the city, which led him to imagine a more peaceful exchange between Parking Control Officers and drivers being ticketed.”

A more peaceful exchange? Wha!?!

Sorry, but no amount of chanting “Om” and “downward facing dog” poses is going to calm a driver from wanting to put their fist through their windshield and shouting four letter obscenities after receiving a $50 parking violation on their car.

2 Responses to Cambridge Issues Parking Tickets With Yoga Poses To Calm Drivers

  1. DoR Employee says:

    Do they have one with “Downward Dog” on it?

  2. Alan says:

    Soooo stupid ART

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