Posted on 05/07/2014 11:11:34 AM PDT by TheProducer
Tired of waiting for the city of Tacoma, Wash. to paint crosswalks on its reputably hazardous streets, a group of anonymous Tacoma residents – including some city employees – has taken to painting crosswalks themselves.
The group calls itself “Citizens for a Safer Tacoma,” – and Tacoma’s city government is determined to crack down on its “rogue crosswalks” and prosecute anyone caught painting them.
“In Tacoma, the law is the law,” KING 5 news reports. The city spends up to $1000 removing each illegal crosswalk. Incidentally, this is also the price of painting a legal crosswalk.
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/johnny
Wait until citizens take up medicine in the not-too-distant future!
“We’re going to have to put that appendix back in! The Law is the law!”
When I worked with a public employee union in CA a school district was having budget problems and had laid off a few groundskeepers, library assistants, etc. A few parents decided to volunteer their time to take up the slack. The union took the school district to court because those parents were taking away jobs from union workers and won.
Keep them Unions happy now.
In a sensible world, government would permit people to improve the community. In a liberal world, that is harming union interests, so it is banned.
Tacoma is so notoriously badly managed, that the pothole threaten to envelop my Toyota Tundra.
And when the city proposes a tax increase to fill the potholes, nobody trusts them, and it gets voted down by the Liberal electorate.
They gave out big RAISES during the recession. Nobody is forgiving them any time soon.
This group should fill potholes and see if the city digs them up.
I live on a street where cars drive by and I occasionally need to cross the street and I’m sure others live in a similar situation. I like the idea of painting a cross walk near or in front of my house and maybe even putting up a stop sign.
I would not be surprised if this trend catches on across the country and lots of people paint their own cross walks, put up stop signs by their homes and even paint bicycle lanes in streets around town.
They do the same thing in canada where I’m from. If you hate unions and want to go it alone, the doctors union will do their best to destroy you.
They will. Happened here on Long Island just this past winter.
Regards,
Was it a union deal?
Because I’ve heard these stories before, and it’s usually a matter of liberals being outraged that private individuals are doing things that “government should be doing”.
Local government employees, probably in parks and recreation, years ago caught squirrels and painted them day glow orange. I guess they didn’t have anything better to do.
Well, if I saw a crosswalk or stop sign in the middle of the street (not at an intersection), it would be pretty obvious it wasn’t legitimate, so I would probably just ignore it and keep driving.
Once I looked at the article, it looks like people are randomly painting crosswalks where they randomly decide to put them. Before looking at the article, I thought they were REPAINTING ones that needed to be touched up, which would be different than creating their own.
I am not sure it is about unions vs private citizens, but this is JMHO.
I was wondering about that. You can’t just paint a crosswalk anywhere you like, or they’d be all over the place. And a likely result is that people would start to ignore them, which would be dangerous.
On the other hand, the one shown in the picture at the top seems legitimate. You can see that the sidewalk along the side of the park has a bit of asphalt that comes out to the street, indicating that it was intended to provide pedestrian access to the park at that spot.
Note that not painting crosswalks creates many unionized city jobs. You have police and EMTS to scrape up victims, you have city crosswalk painters, city crosswalk paint removers, city crosswalk repainters, police to ticket illegal (?) crosswalk painters, city prosecutors to prosecute illegal crosswalk painters, lawyers to defend illegal crosswalk painters, etc. and the list is endless...that’s how mindless bureaucracies create jobs!
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