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.”
