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What are they? Painted safety zones are painted road areas that wrap around sidewalk corners to make pedestrian crossing intersections more visible to people driving. Painted safety zones are often...

What are they? Bulb-outs (also called curb extensions) extend the sidewalk into the parking lane to narrow the roadway and provide additional pedestrian space and visibility at key locations. They can...

What are they? Pedestrian refuges are protected areas where people may safely pause or wait while crossing a street. A pedestrian refuge or traffic island is used at intersections, and can also...

What are they? Flashing beacons are safety enhancements added at crossings, typically under the pedestrian sign. When a pedestrian crosses the street, the lights flash, alerting drivers to yield...

What are they? SFMTA has implemented a range of improvements to pedestrian signals at intersection, including: pedestrian countdown signals, leading pedestrian intervals, and increased crossing times...

What is it? Left turn safety treatments consist of installing waist-high vertical delineator posts, small rubber speed bumps, and paint to create enhanced center lane lines and painted safety zones to...

What are they? A pedestrian scramble, sometimes called a Barnes Dance, is a type of signal treatment at an intersection that stops all traffic and allows people to cross from all corners at the same...

This page is part of Muni Art 2022. This poem is intended to be read with indentations on most lines. If you have low vision or other vision issues such that this typography is not accessible to you...

This page is part of Muni Art 2022. Recipe for Happiness in Khabarovsk or Anyplace One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand café in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups One not...

This page is part of Muni Art 2022. Populist Manifesto Poets, come out of your closets,Open your windows, open your doors,You have been holed up too longIn your closed worlds. Come down, come downfrom...

This page is part of Muni Art 2022. from What is Poetry? It is what exists between the lines. A true poem can create a divine still-ness in the world.It is made with the stillness of dreams. It is far...

This page is part of Muni Art 2022. At the Golden Gate At the Golden Gate A single plover far at seawings across the horizon A single rower almost out of sightrows his skull into eternity And I take a...

This page is part of Muni Art 2022. The 2022 theme, “Streets of San Francisco” is the seventh year that the SFMTA, San Francisco Beautiful and The Poetry Society of America (sponsors of Poetry in...