SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB ) - The city of Sarasota worked to remove sidewalk art on Burns Court Friday.

This comes as a director order from the Florida Department of Transportation.

Visitors to the Suncoast expressed their disappointment in the removal, saying it’s sad to see the hard work of the artists be erased.

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“To come here and to see that all the art has to be gone I mean, you are just going to have plain sidewalks,” Amber Shidler said.

“The art is beautiful. To come here and to see the art, the mosaics and the paintings, it’s beautiful. They are taking and brushing everything away, it’s kind of baffling actually.”

Bailey Snyder, also on vacation in Sarasota, says it’s tough to kno

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