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We have a road that goes under a bridge so that you can make a right to go east on a 4 lane road. People would sit at that corner waiting to go left and it caused massive backups. (Which made no sense, why go under the bridge then? Use a different corner and make a right to go west!). We asked the city to make it right turn only - they interpreted it slightly differently and thought we meant people were heading straight the wrong way up a one way, rather than turning to that corner, came and put a temporary sign. I went with one of my kids, wearing safety vests, and moved the temporary sign to the corner we wanted it at.
Later the city came and put the permanent sign where we had it, and ALSO changed the paint on the road to make it one way right at the corner and disallowed left turns INTO that corner, they just broadly said no left. Which is good. Nobody should be stopping at the bottom of a bridge to wait to make a left turn.
It’s not like NOBODY does the left anymore, but there are not backups now because nobody is going to sit there waiting to go left, they get honked at.
That happened
Where maymay
Stuck in traffic
cloak and dagger
posts details on the internet
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In all fairness, he’s discussing stuff he’d done 13 years prior.
And without enough info to point to a specific intersection.
Definitely past the statute of limitations.
“Oh shit, InfiniteRespect4757 just confessed to a crim on the Internet from years ago. We finally got em boys!”
One of my favorite modern day quotes recently has been:
“People really do be using their free will out here.”
98% of the population believes everything they’re told and obeys all the rules. It’s that 2% you need to watch.
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My great grandma had a similar story, the bus stop was in front of my grandparent’s bedroom, they hated that people would gather in their bedroom window. she asked for the stop to be moved a few meters down the road, so it is between the houses and not in front of it. the municipality denied her.
Until that point the bus stop was nothing but a sign, she heard that they were going to remove it and install a proper bus stop with a bench and shade.
She asked the city build it a few meters down, still nothing.
the night before they began construction, my great grandma just moved the sign to where she wanted it. they built the bus stop where the sign was, and today, that bus stop is still where she wanted it to. Possibly until perpetuity
Possibility: They know it’s in the wrong spot. They don’t know why. So they figure someone screwed up, they don’t know who, but they don’t want it to be them or their department. So nobody says anything, and the stop remains unchanged.
Yeah screw the public, she deserves her view
you suck
How’s the public screwed in this?
We have no knowledge of why it was there in the first place, we’re only given one side of the story. Maybe this was closer to a crosswalk, or nextdoor was less safe. We don’t even know if the stop existed there before she moved in. We don’t know. All we know is old lady didn’t like view of people outside her window and decided that instead of dealing with it she had to change it herself.
or maybe the city council couldn’t be bothered to move the sign a few meters to the left, and the fact that the construction still went through and nobody complained or pointed out any possible problems means that it was a non-issue
Your defense is entirely based on speculation that makes your side look correct, when you simply made it up out of thin air. That is not a legitimate position.
We also don’t know if the entire story is real. We don’t know why you are so triggered by it.
We have no knowledge of why it was there in the first place
So you admit you have no knowledge of this, yet assume it fucks the public to have it moved a few feet to the left?
you are free to give it the worst possible reading. it is a story I heard from family of events that happened maybe 70 years ago. the stakes couldn’t be lower. unless you figure which municipality and bus stop were talking about, then you can complain and have the bus stop reinstated in front of the bedroom I might inherit someday
High stakes indignation, the highest possible. People with real problems don’t get that high.
it was a trivial problem with a trivial solution. a complete non issue.
if it’s a trivial problem with hard solutions, then suck it. if it’s a real problem with trivial solution, then fix it already.
but trivial problem with a trivial solution? that’s just good enough for a family anecdote.
I’m forced to give it the worst possible reading because we don’t have the other side. Personally, I read this as some HOA type who can’t be bothered to have a few people milling around while waiting for the bus.
For context I got a picture of the place in google maps. and discovered that said bus station is no longer there at all, but I have marked were the bedroom is, the original location (straight in front of their window. and the exchanged location, no one was inconvenienced by that change. and albeit it was a minor inconvenience for my great grandparents, the fix was trivial.
To me, that’s even less of a reason. They could still see in, she could still see them, I side with the city still. What was the point of moving it except wasting taxpayer money?
I’m forced to give it the worst possible reading
You’re literally not, in any way, forced to do that. That is a decision you have made.
I know that street, the bus is like 10 meters away from it’s original location. it inconveniences literally no one.
Seems like it benefited everyone involved, even those that don’t know they benefit from it.
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What a savage
Where funny?
No need to be funny. But it’s also not a meme. Not that most things here are.
I see this. There was another thread today where people were discussing if stuff like this counts as a “meme” or if it’s off topic for this page. I’ll be making a pinned post for community input tomorrow about a potential new rule. Stay tuned.
Guy did this in LA, correctly noting a lane on the 110 that goes to the 5 North.
Thank you, it was the first thing I thought and was about to go search for it
Difference here is that he was correctly a clear mistake. OOP here did it for their own selfish reasons
This is done in a number of overpasses on the DC beltway and “mixing bowl”
A road may go North while the other direction goes East and the signs will point that out but the road might actually be labeled South for a bit despite the sign saying East.
So folks have rappelled off the overpasses and painted EAST and an arrow or NORTH and an arrow in places like this.
And everyone clapped.
My friends and I stole a speed limit sign over a decade ago and they still haven’t replaced it.
They did replace the one on the other side of the road about 4 years ago.
20 years ago, our town had a war over an intersection.
Someone decided to upgrade a 3 way intersection, for a a dirt road going into the woods off a main artery. (rumored someone in town planning bought a house on that road and was trying to make it so they didnt have to wait a long time for a gap in traffic)
So they made it a 3 way stop unsteady of just the dirt road having a stop sign. This caused tragic to back up miles on either side, as it was pretty much the only stop on the main road going out to the town’s comercial district (100s of work vehicles traveling it at 9 and 5)
Almost immediatley, People started coming out with chain saws, and wpuld cut down the 4x4 wood signpost. Leaving the stump and the concrete block in the ground. Fairly quickly, the town ran out of room on the narrow strip between the road and the bike path, and started hammering in metal posts, wedged between the buried cement supports.
Guys with welders on their trucks started cutting those down flush with the ground. At one point, a cop car was stationed there overnight.
The police report detailed 2 trucks, with chain strung between them, driving on either side of the post at speed, wrapping the sign, and tearing it out of the ground before dropping the chain.
Thst was about as far as it got before town meeting, where an inquest was called for into the appropriateness , and approval process, and who had put in the work order etc. (There was some passage about the planning board being able to make minor changes to signage, etc without impact studies, and going through the approval process (which includes open forum, and with enough detractors to a project can force it to be put to a vote)
The main point of contention being how anyone qualified to be in that position could think that something that caused a 30-60 minute delay on a 5 mile road qualified as a ‘minor change’
Iirc the whole thing ended with the town cementing over that little strip (covering over all the metal and wood protrusions, and effectively signaling a stop sign couldn’t be put there anymore) and then several members of the planing commision, resigning their posts, which made the inquest moot.
Remember that guy that made that highway exit sign in California? https://youtu.be/26-4oARwfF4
This is a lie.
It’s not that implausible; Richard Ankrom managed something similar (on an interstate no less).
I know it’s not implausible, but the fabrication about contacting the company that had the contract to make the signs blew it all apart, the fonts are heavily controlled and copyrighted and they would lose the city contract if they got caught, no sign printing company is going to go out of business to make six bucks off some random dude.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
It’s a single screenshot
Flock is watching.
Flock is getting kicked out of towns left and right.
I’ve heard of like two places.
left and right
Sounds like two places to me.
Yeah those are the left and right respectively
