It has been quite a while since I’ve taken the GO train. I rode the iconic green and white public transit locomotive the other day when I attended a day-long conference about social media in the health care industry.

To my surprise and delight, the ugly graffiti all over the sound barrier near Union Station was replaced with a beautiful mural of graffiti.

So I Storyfied it (I embedded it below but it seems Storify doesn’t work all the time. Click here if you see nothing).

Toronto Reclamation Project – Graffiti!

It’s been 2 years since I took the GO train and to my surprise, a particular area filled with ugly graffiti was painted over with a mural of beautiful graffiti! I did a quick Google search and learned that it was all made for a project. Read on…

Storified by Daniele Rossi· Sun, Feb 03 2013 07:53:02

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