Today, New York City’s Department of Transportation unveiled 12 nifty new signs to be placed at over 200 locations in the NYC, including some of the city’s high-crash locations. But are they more disorienting than helpful?
Curbside Haiku, created by artist John Morse, are designed to warn pedestrians and bikers that they are entering a danger zone. But the pairing of the arresting imagery and the cryptic messages seems like they might produce a counter-effect of distracting those walkers/writers who should be paying attention. Click through the images and tell us what you think…would you understand at a glance what these signs are trying to say?
“Haiku” might be the term you’re looking for.
This
one is so completely screwed up, also thinking about the recent
or ongoing attacks on women in Bklyn. They are blaming the victim
here. Pedestrians should be able to wear all the black they want and
not accept any more responsibility for that. Hello?!?
Some of the others are okay but in general these things need to be
solved by infrastructure and training, rather than communications.