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U.S. cities forced to spend millions changing street signs... because they are in capital letters
Are you f**king kidding me? We are trillions in debt, unemployment is double digits, and THIS is the shit they’re worried about?
Idiots... about as worse an abuse of us taxpayers as the bipartisan looting of us to benefit Washington’s criminal class.
what happens to the locale that says,”No.”? This is out of control.
So whose nephew owns the sign company?
Woody Allen made a movie many years ago — “Bananas”, I think — in which he briefly portrayed a Latin American Revolutionary Dictator who seizes power in some little country and declares as his first official act that the national language will now be ... Swedish.
If you can't read it, you can't see it or you can't comprehend it, you shouldn't be driving!
Right...too hard to read. You mean forced to do this to pay off political buddies. Got Fed?
I know that in Ocoee FL, which is a little town outside of Orlando, they have street signs with all capital letters and you almost can’t read them unless you get out of your car and walk right up to them. And that is in broad daylight.
But the problem isn’t that the signs are in capital letters. The problem is that the idiot city planners included the flowery/Tree logo of the city on the sign, which TAKES UP ALMOST HALF THE DAMN SIGN!!
If this is serious ... big IF ... then this is proof positive that we are living under a tyranny and not a constitutional republic any longer.
I’m just about certain that Congress didn’t pass any law requiring this action. This was the work of some bureaucrat who gets to draw up regulations without supervision and we get to suffer for it.
What was the wording used in the Declaration? Oh yeah:
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their substance.”
This is tyranny, kiddies. We’re not in Kansas anymore.
I think Obama must have some sort of fetish about street signs. Remember all the fuss and expense over the signs giving him credit for the shovel ready highway repairs?
Don’t be surprised if he suddenly gives the order to rename every street in America Obama St., Obama Ave., or Obama Dr.
And these names would be followed to numbers, to prevent confusion.
Thus: “Proceed down Obama Ave. V to Obama Street 23, turn left at the stop light, and then turn right onto Obama Dr. 67.”
I heard last night this is only a recommendation rather than a requirement.
Not using all caps makes sense. Most of us don’t like reading posts in all caps.
What doesn’t make sense is the immediacy. Just make replacement or new signs use upper and lower case. Why throw out a sign that still is in good shape. It’s not as if the world will end due to all caps signs.
How does the FEDERAL highway department have any say in a CITY street naming/signing issue anyway?
I know, federal highway dollars at work and all that. But they shouldn’t be able to mandate on a miniscule scale every little issue.
This is an outrage! I find all-caps to be easier to read :p
Why not limit street names to no more than ten letters, and require appending the city name and zip code as well. If we need uniformity, let’s make it efficient as well!
In other news...
U.S. cities forced to spend millions changing street signs... because they are in capital letters
This presents an excellent opportunity for "conservative" media to expose and ridicule the foibles of the Obamaton tyranny in Washington.
Why can't you see that this is being done for the love of you little people who really don't know any better? OBTW, 53% of you nice people out there voted for the guy, so quitcha bellyachin'.