Posted on 11/30/2010 9:40:16 AM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Cash-strapped cities and towns across America are having to pay out millions of dollars on new signs under orders of the federal government - because they are the wrong letter size. Washington officials have demanded that every single street sign in the nation which is currently in capitals must be replaced because they are supposedly too hard to read. In their place will be new signs with the same green background and the same font, the only difference being that they are in lower-case letters. For some cities the cost will be millions of dollars at a time when budgets are being cut and salaries frozen.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Washington can take its domestic regulations and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
The MSM is now telling us that the Secretary of Transportation will try to stop the Highway Administration from implementing this "lower case" signs regulation. Don't hold your breath waiting for them to come to their senses.
Ok, I won't!
ALL CAPS IN STREET SIGNS MAKES FOR EASIER READING. LOWER CASE WILL MAKE THE SIGN APPEAR AT ALMOST Half THE Resolution. SEE?
I’ll be glad when the federal government tells us EVERYTHING we can eat, read, think or do, in order to “help” us.
Won’t you?
If letters in all caps are so difficult to read compared to lower case, then why are the letters on the charts used to test eyesight all in caps?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20024269-503544.html
LaHood wants to repeal this rule—this may be the first time ever that I agree with something coming out of this administration. There is a 45 day comment period...let’s start commenting folks....
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