HATHERLEIGH could be setting the trend by making its bus shelters a real eyecatching feature.
The town council is looking to decorate the bus shelters which are currently suffering from a bad case of graffiti.
Clare Gladstone from West Devon Environmental Network, who worked with children from the local primary school on a mural for this year's Hatherleigh Festival, was invited to a town council meeting on Tuesday night to discuss possible ideas.
Town clerk Gina Lane said the bus shelters had been decorated by the schoolchildren in the past but the paint had worn off and now they were being vandalised by graffiti.
Hatherleigh resident Clare Gladstone, who is also co-ordinator of Hatherleigh Festival, said if the teenagers were involved in the art project they would be more inclined to look after it.
'There really is nowhere for the young people to go in Hatherleigh and they tend to hang around the bus shelters,' he said.
'I've had several ideas and one involves anyone who wants to, painting a tile to tile the whole inside of the shelter,' she said. 'Of course, everything costs money and what we could do would depend on what funds are available.'
She said the children really enjoyed making the 'Save the Planet' mural for the Hatherleigh Festival which was now hanging in the school.
'This was a really successful project and I think it is a brilliant idea to paint the bus shelters,' she added.
'I am hoping to leave it up to the children to decide what the theme of the project should be. It could relate to music or environmental issues. They might even want to paint pictures of each other doing something, say, for example, skateboarding. As long as it is something lively and eyecatching.
'You do not see bus shelters painted very often — I think it would be really fun if the whole region did it or if there was a national competition. On the whole bus shelters look pretty grizzly at the moment.'