“While we appreciate that some visitors really like the old design, the new barrier will improve the safety of the pedestrians, cyclists and drivers ”
Frikkin snowflakes.
“Frikkin snowflakes.”
No kidding. Reminds me of the high school three blocks from our house in a small town on the SF Peninsula. It’s been there about 70 years. We’ve lived there 40 of those 70. There have never been safety problems with kids, bikes and cars. We had some simple white stripes to delineate a bike lane, typical white paint crosswalks, and a few yellow and black “School” signs. There has never been a safety problem. Maybe one or two kids got hurt in our 40 years there.
A couple years ago, they decided to “improve safety” and repainted all the streets with green paint, more lanes, turn arrows everywhere, cross-hatches, plenty of new signs and signposts — you name it. It is a gigantic jumbled mess and nobody can understand any of it. NONE of it was run by the neighbors affected by it before making the changes. It’s like Idiocracy run wild.
The neighbors finally said “Enough” and are fighting the city.