DOT uses / Money from drunk driver fines / To buy new haikus! Today DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan unveiled the first of 216 safety signs featuring colorful artwork and haikus. The signs will be installed at a dozen high-crash locations near cultural institutions and schools citywide, using state money collected from DWI fines. Haikus for safer streets ! We can’t wait to hear what cantankerous NY Post columnist Steve Cuozzo has to say about this! (“In the good old days / Cars ran poets down like dogs / Wrote rhymes with their blood.”) [ more › ]
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New Haiku Signs Will Make NYC Streets Safer Through Power Of Poetry