Posted on 01/14/2024 1:55:30 PM PST by BenLurkin
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has given states two years to implement all the changes outlined in its new 1,100-page manual released last month, including rules that spells out how signs and other traffic control devices are regulated.
Administration officials said overhead electronic signs with obscure meanings, references to pop culture or those intended to be funny will be banned in 2026...
Among those that will be disappearing are messages such as “Use Yah Blinkah” in Massachusetts; “Visiting in-laws? Slow down, get there late,” from Ohio; “Don’t drive Star Spangled Hammered,” from Pennsylvania; “Hocus pocus, drive with focus” from New Jersey; and “Hands on the wheel, not your meal” from Arizona.
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Some states had to raise speed limits!
ATTENTION PROLES!!
UNAPPROVED EXPRESSIONS OF “FUN” ARE FORBIDDEN!!
NOW GET THAT HAPPY SMILE OFF YOUR FACE!!
(STIFF FINES AND LONG PRISON TERMS MAY APPLY!!)
RESPECT MY AUTHORITY!!!!!
“Let’s Go Brandon!”
This is definitely the constitutional role of the federal government. /spit
To our younger FReepers: Google up “Burma Shave signs”.
We have to burn the entire house down to purge leftists and woketards from the system. The fedgov has become authoritarian and has to go. Long love the several states.
Do Not Pass
On a Slope
Unless You Have
A Periscope
[two lane US highway in Pa.]
YES.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Brought to you by incompetent Mayor Pete’s DOT agency…
I can remember the old BURMA SHAVE road signs
Saw one on the Mass Pike, “Wicked Big Stahhm Coming”
I saw a billboard in Alberta, Canada years ago.
“If you love your kids, belt them”.
classic.
And
all the changes outlined in its new 1,100-page manual released last month, including rules that spells out how signs and other traffic control devices are regulated.
Hell is commonly depicted as a vast pit raging with fire, where demons with pitchforks do awful things to the residents. A real hellscape.
But could you just imagine if the place were actually filled with all the best memes and "humorous electronic messages" as far as the eye could see, no escaping them?
These folks with zero-tolerance for jokes would absolutely freak. Eternal torment. And not a pen in sight to write a law. Keyboards, only typing emoji smileys and happy suns...
About a year ago, a sheriff deputy was setting up a road sign in the median right next to where I had to stop as I was making a left turn. I rolled down the window, politely said good afternoon and offered; “I’d be willing to give you $20 to program the sign to read ‘ZOMBIES AHEAD’”. He laughed his butt off and wryly snapped back; “Save your money sir. It’s South Florida, haha, everybody knows this already”.
“Have a great day & stay safe”
“You too, drive safe”
A good laugh relief on a commute.
“Camp out in our State Parks. Not the Fast Lane”.
“Drink, Drive, Go to Jail.”
“DWI. You can’t afford it.” (Average cost to defend a DWI starts at $5,000.)
All the new foreigners hired by the department don’t know what the words mean so they can’t program the signs. /sarc
The whole point of the MUTCD is to dictate every little detail of street signage and traffic control devices. It has a lot of good, but government officials want to be able to control the message.
Some of the good is allowing local communities more leeway in setting intown speed limits.
I am soooooooooo sick of federal AGENCIES just making up laws!
they are not authorized to make law, only to implement them!
we ELECT people to make laws!
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