Frappuccino-Colored Streets

24 September 2009 - 2:00pm

Would you slow for beige? Planners in San Francisco hope so, as they plan to differentiate sections of Market St. where they'd like traffic to slow down with 'frappuccino'-colored asphalt.

"The coffee-and-cream-colored-pavement experiment is part of a larger endeavor to create 33 "safety zones" along Market Street that will focus on the curbside travel lane adjacent to Muni Metro/BART stations and Muni's F-line boarding platforms."

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle, September 23, 2009
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