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

Given the original sign covered 7-9.30am seems like it's to prevent people cutting across traffic during peak commuting time either to prevent accidents or improve the flow of traffic.

7-9:30a Definitely speaks to it being rush-hour specific.

It's to try and prevent people from cutting through a neighborhood during rush hour. Common in more gridded cities.

Likely a school zone. Most of these signs are because there are children crossing the street and they don't want them to get hit by cars.

If you bring it up, then it could end up in some bureaucratic limbo where nothing ever gets done. And then afterwards if you go to change it yourself they’ll figure it was you. So maybe easier just to change it yourself in the first place?

His sign wasn't useless, the new one was about 20% less useless.

There's a sign by my house, on a road I need to turn right on at about 420 every day, that says no right-on-red turns between 730am to 430pm on school days.

It's frustrating, because it doesn't seem like it's actually protecting children for 9 hours a day

School kids probably

Maybe he caused a 50-car pileup and killed hundreds of puppies.

I had one of those by my house, not in the residential area.

Morning turners would back up the lane into another light, so the sign was just to cover up for bad traffic design

It prevents backup. If the light goes from green to red on a major road, then arterial traffic stops (just like it is supposed to). Now, a crossroad dumps in a new batch of cars that backfill the next block. When the arterial light turns green, those cars now have nowhere to go. It's not too long before you have cars blocking part of the intersection between light cycles out of frustration. Or, at least that is the case near where I live.

Just because a traffic engineer has qualifications doesn't necessarily guarantee they're not an asshole who is wrong and also sucks.

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.

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?

Won’t someone please think of the children 😭

absolutely… all the people praising this, like… those signs exist for traffic flow and safety… it’s so incredibly selfish to just say fuck everyone else, i need to turn right and even more selfish to avoid repercussions but making it “okay” for everyone else

maybe the sign was wrong, sure… but we don’t have that information… without more information, it’s an incredibly selfish act. dude has main character syndrome

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.

Thank you, it was the first thing I thought and was about to go search for it

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.

Difference here is that he was correctly a clear mistake. OOP here did it for their own selfish reasons

Unfortunately people just park on bike lanes, so there's no good damn point.

Just don't get caught.

Hi-vis vest, hardhat, and a clipboard(optional but stylish). You can do practically anything.

Yeah, it's just life advice. No memes here

I see this post in my feed next

The meme was posting things to make you ask where the meme is the whole time.

In all fairness, he's discussing stuff he'd done 13 years prior.

"Oh shit, InfiniteRespect4757 just confessed to a crim on the Internet from years ago. We finally got em boys!"

98% of the population believes everything they're told and obeys all the rules. It's that 2% you need to watch.

Literally just a screenshot of a reddit post. I left reddit for a reason, get this shit out of here.

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.

Flock is getting kicked out of towns left and right.

Thanks, Ron.

Just needs another “you can just do stuff” on top of it. We’ll be Facebook yet!

Stuck in traffic

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.

It's a single screenshot

How can you tell?

My grandparents have a similar story (https://lemmy.world/post/40811218/21244723)

But they hold a screwdriver.

It's not that implausible; Richard Ankrom managed something similar (on an interstate no less).

No need to be funny. But it's also not a meme. Not that most things here are.

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.