{"id":8985,"date":"2011-12-02T16:19:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T21:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2017-11-12T01:47:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T20:47:22","slug":"haikus-for-safer-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/haikus-for-safer-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Haikus for safer streets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8987\" title=\"112911haiku4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/112911haiku4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"270\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8988\" title=\"112911haiku5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/112911haiku5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"278\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8994\" title=\"112911haiku3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/112911haiku31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"274\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, the DOT (Department of Transport) 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 (driving while intoxicated) fines.<\/p>\n<p>The DOT hopes that the <strong>&#8220;Curbside Haiku&#8221;<\/strong> initiative will draw attention to &#8220;the critical importance of shared responsibility among all street users to help keep New York City&#8217;s streets as safe as they can be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The series features 12 designs with accompanying haikus by poet John Morse, each one expressing a different safety message by focusing on one transportation mode. Half of the signs will be hung in pairs, with the image and haiku text appearing; the others feature an image with a QR code on the sign that lets New Yorkers &#8220;discover the safety message via their smart phones.&#8221; They&#8217;ll be displayed from now until next fall at a dozen hubs across the five boroughs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">See more haikus and read more <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2011\/11\/29\/new_haiku_signs_will_make_nyc_stree.php#photo-2\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Thanks to my friend <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sndsep\" target=\"_blank\">JuanMa Sepulveda<\/a> for the link.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; New York, New York Two days ago, the DOT (Department of Transport) 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 (driving while intoxicated) fines. The DOT hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,9,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15462,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions\/15462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}