Remember that guy that made that highway exit sign in California? https://youtu.be/26-4oARwfF4
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I seriously doubt it. Generally each city has their own sign-making department, if it's interstates, it's the state DOT doing it. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to sell signs that replicate them faithfully enough (including the reflective layer) to be swapped out - for exactly this reason. Otherwise this would happen all the time.
You can buy replicas of signs but they are usually a lot thinner aluminum and don't have the same layered reflective coating, and probably noticeably smaller too. That said, it is possible to buy the sign-making equipment and produce your own, if you were really so motivated, but now we're talking way more than a traffic ticket.
So just go take the sign down, so much simpler. Doubt they'd notice for a months or years, and when they replace it, just take it down again.
Any department of transportation isn't going to have their own print department, as far as I know. They contract out print jobs like that since the equipment and expertise to produce at scale are prohibitively expensive for just one client. As I've seen, that kind of job uses laser-etched plates on rollers with different plates for each colour. Pantone inks, probably. So they need the laser machine, a printer the size of a small apartment, the licensing, and all the materials, just for signs.
The reflective coating is just a simple laminated layer.
Source: Worked at a printers and toured a couple screenprinting shops who had contracts with the city. We'd print anything as long as someone paid and sent the correct filetype.
Respect.
I did a speed bump out of gravel and sprayfoam at 3am back a couple years ago. It worked ok for a couple weeks.
Did you know you can just rent a line painting tool and buy a high vis vest and hard hat?
You can just get all the things you need to make a bike lane.
Nobody will question you.
Be the change.
Unfortunately people just park on bike lanes, so there's no good damn point.
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.
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.
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Looking to bulk order "pedestrian zone" and "cycles only" signs some time soon 👀
I have on numerous occasions considered ordering bike route signage to place up on bike safe routes. The city has official signs for it but puts basically none up. If I could just order a lot more to put up it could encourage more folks to join.
Are people really praising this? I guess fuck the engineers who did a traffic study, and fuck the school children walking in that area from 7-7:30 I guess.
Did you just invent a school zone to make an argument? What would the hypothetical civil engineers have to say after running countless hours of simulations on imagined children?
We have no idea why the sign was the way it was. They gave us no background. So I'm biased against the sign changer until given a good argument as to why it was acceptable.
I'm biased because I've worked for the government.
Which government? Makes a big difference since some other better than others.
I'm not saying OOP definitely had no legitimate reason to change the sign, but without knowing, we can't assume they did either.
The fact they made no mention of it, leads me to suspect it was mostly for their personal convenience.
Also, government = inefficient is some neo-lib propaganda I can't tolerate. Any organisation can be inefficient (so, so, so many examples of this in the private sector), and governments can and must be set up to be well-run. The alternative is the privatised neo-lib hellscape we (countries in general) continue to not fix.
Uh... all I said was that I worked for the government. You're just making up your own little world over there, aren't you? This argument is moot since I can't anticipate everything you're gonna think up in imagination land. Kinda hard to argue against things no one said.
Just because a traffic engineer has qualifications doesn't necessarily guarantee they're not an asshole who is wrong and also sucks.
to be fair on traffic engineers timing lights we have verifiable proof that sometimes adding roads can actually increase taffic (and that removing them can decrease it) And this information is not always taken into account on a high level so they get stuck trying to fix an innately flawed system.
Title text is great
Or, hear me out, maybe the sign was just wrong. If they haven't catch up in almost a year that was probably the case.
How is life like being a lawful good little paladin? I break rules that don't apply to me. This guy seems to have broken rules that apply to no one.
You're the guy saying the victim should have complied with the cop that murdered him.
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Flock is watching.
This is a lie.
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.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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