This is your brain on haiku, NY style

RantWoman, pedestrian visibility zealot, walkability maniac, known to emit haiku by mobile device herself is highly amused and entertained to hear of the New York City Department of Transportation's campaign of haiku signs about pedestrian and bicycle safety.

Better to wake up to car crash haiku on the radio than car crashes on the corner.
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/03/143053082/haiku-traffic-signs-bring-poetry-to-nyc-streets

From the NYC DOT themselves
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/safety/curbside-haiku.shtml


Sure they're "adorable," but will people be able to read them fast enough to matter.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/levin031/transportationist/2011/11/new-york-has-haiku-traffic-sig.html

http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2011/12/haiku-traffic-signs.html

We need more creativity and fewer algorithms
http://www.creativityatwork.com/blog/