From New York to Paris to Bombay, navigating city streets can be a challenging choreography between bipeds, bicycles and motorized vehicles.  In places like India that dance expands to include the more than occasional quadruped as well.

We’ve written about driving in India on several other occasions, and to mitigate the apparent chaos the Indian Government has a program of sometimes rhyming, often droll, road signs that include little “ditties” such as:

Speed Thrills But Kills

Impatient on the Road, Patient in the Hospital

Safety On Road; Safe Tea At Home!

Reach Home In Peace, Not In Pieces!

Certainly not to be outdone, New York’s Safe Streets Fund has collaborated with artist John Morse and installed their own homilies in all 5 burrows of the city.   The collection of a dozen different signs,  attached to light poles and parking lot entrances, use brightly graphic images coordinated with haiku safety tips.

It was quite difficult to pick a favorite from the 12 designs, but the one below somehow seemed to have an “Indian flare”….

Readers will have to wait for a future post to see the Indian signs themselves, as they most frequently appear precisely in the spots on the winding road least appropriate for a “photo op”.  But stay tuned, as I’ll certainly try to capture this tiny, amusing corner of India!

Photo: Irene Slegt via The Economist