Makes sense to me. There’s actually a lot that goes into the roads, and consistency is important. Did you ever notice that no matter where you are in the country driving the interstate the lanes are the same size, the stripes are the same color, width, length, and gap apart, and you can actually see them in the rain? The signs for various things are the same size, color, and font? Overpasses are never too short for a standard semi to pass under? Off ramps are never to tightly curved for safe exit at legal speed, and give you enough space to get to 0 before the stop sign? This doesn’t happen on accident, there’s a million and 1 little specifications, and if you don’t spell them out some idiot somewhere is going to cut a corner. Notice up there I mentioned seeing the lane markings in the rain, you can’t do that in Tucson. Many moons ago the idiots in charge of Tucson roads took some payola and settled on the paint to use in our streets. And it’s the worst paint for roads ever. It fades to gray quickly, and become largely invisible with even a little water on it. Luckily if you drive THROUGH Tucson on I-10 you won’t have that problem because that manual you mock tells them what paint to use on the highways. It’s only off the federally funded highways we deal with that, because the manual doesn’t apply there.
So yes, 1100 pages.
So you quote to me a lot of situations where no one follows the 1,100 pages of rules and regulations. And your solution is MORE rules.
The pharisees ruled with regulations adding more each time they encountered a problem. Until there were so many it killed the soul of the people.
I see every day where they followed the centralized rules but the centralized rules DID FIT THE PARTICULAR SITUATION.
We have to follow the same rules in Iowa for land fill that they do in Florida which has a different water table. does that make sense.
YOUR CENTRALIZED RULES (one size fits all) CREATE AS MANY PROBLEMS, IF NOT MORE PROBLEMS, THAN THEY SOLVE.
The old timers at the DOT and city inspection had some common sense. Now it is all rules whether it makes sense or not.
At least admit this one regarding humor is a non-sense rule. And there are many others in the 1,100 pages could be eliminated.