Richmond, Virginia residents clearly have a good sense of humor (and taste in music).As the city introduces a new street sweeper for bike lanes, it engaged residents in a March Madness-style stand to decide a name for the machine, eventually landing on MF BROOM, a piece by the late hip-hop artist MF. DOOM.Community organization Venture Richmond handled the nomination, crowdsourcing ideas from the city, and organizing Twitter polls.In addition to MF BROOM, other potential names for the street sweeper included Kate Brush, Meryl Sweep, Dirt Reynolds, Bike Dyson, LeBroom James and The Grim Sweeper – the last of whom made it to the final round of voting before losing 59%. -41% for MF BROOM.“The people have spoken!”Venture Richmond tweeted.“We collected name ideas, you voted and the name of the new @DPW_RichmondVA bike path sweeper is… MF BROOM.”According to Venture Richmond, the City of Richmond will even host a naming ceremony for the street sweeper, with details to be announced shortly.“Until then, enjoy your clean bike paths!”MF DOOM passed away in 2020. Since then, the masked British-American rapper has received tributes in the form of street names, Atmosphere songs, Thom Yorke remixes, and more.The people spoke!We collected name ideas, you voted and the name of the new @DPW_RichmondVA bike path sweeper is… ??MF broom?@CityRichmondVA will host a naming ceremony – details coming soon.Until then, enjoy your clean bike paths!#RVASweep16 pic.twitter.com/fYcEpVwZVC— Venture Richmond (@VentureRVA) August 5, 2022The Grim Sweeper vs.MF BROOM— Venture Richmond (@VentureRVA) August 3, 2022Proudly powered by WordPress |Theme: Newsup by Themeansar.