Curbside Haiku in New York

This is delicious:

The city’s Department of Transportation is waxing poetic in  the interest of public safety with a series of signs that are being installed at  high-crash locations.

Paid for with a state grant from DWI funds, the 216 signs  feature 12 designs with haiku — Japanese-style short poems that will deliver  critical safety messages.

 

In one, a silhouette of “Walking Man” is paired with the  haiku:

“Too averse to risk

To chance the lottery, yet

Steps into traffic.”

 

“A sudden car door,

Cyclist’s story rewritten.

Fractured narrative.”

 

The advocacy group Transportation Alternatives shot back  with its own haiku regarding the signs:

“Safe street designs: check.

But where is the enforcement?

It’s your turn, police.”

 

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