The resulting art plan is thoughtful, layered, and easy to read, featuring playful illustrations by artist and avid bus-rider Aaron Bagley. It articulates a vision and conceptual framework for system-wide and community-specific art integration and intervention, providing through-lines, a cohesive visual language, consistent structure, and narrative for a variety of projects. “Slow down, find stillness and imagine the possibilities,” they write of community with other riders, and the importance of rest, comfort, and kindness.

The plan also provides a project guide with artwork scopes, budgets, and timelines. It’s specific enough to anchor artwork development and broad enough to allow project artists to generate ideas and approaches. It outlines art projects for passenger facilities (such as furnishings), access elements (such as lighting), communications and technology (such as podcasts and limited-edition transit cards), interior and exterior bus designs, driver comfort stops, and more.