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New Yorkers outraged as bureaucrats order city to change lettering on every single street sign
NY Daily News ^ | 9/30/2010 | ANDREW PHILLIPS & PETE DONOHUE

Posted on 09/30/2010 8:00:45 AM PDT by Qbert

The city will change the lettering on every single street sign - at an estimated cost of about $27.5 million - because the feds don't like the font.

Street names will change from all capital letters to a combination of upper and lower case on roads across the country thanks to the pricey federal regulation, officials said Wednesday.

By 2018, MADISON AVE. will become Madison Ave. and will be printed in a font called Clearview, the city Department of Transportation says.

The Federal Highway Administration says the switch will improve safety because drivers identify the words more quickly when they're displayed that way - and can sooner return their eyes to the road.

Still, several city residents were OUTRAGED.

"That's ridiculous," said James Sullivan, 34, a bike messenger from Queens. "They might as well just burn the damn money."

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The city has about 250,000 signs, and it costs about $110 to replace one, the DOT says. Officials said the new signs will have improved reflectivity and clarity for nighttime drivers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democrats; newyork; ny; wastefulspending
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$27.5 Million...

1 posted on 09/30/2010 8:00:47 AM PDT by Qbert
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To: Qbert

And NYC has a budget problem why???


2 posted on 09/30/2010 8:02:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Qbert

That’s not a “font” change, that’s a capitalization change.

Still a waste of money, though. Someone must have a brother in the sign business...


3 posted on 09/30/2010 8:02:50 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Qbert

What, no Espanol? RACISTS!


4 posted on 09/30/2010 8:03:00 AM PDT by workerbee (FAIL, BABY, FAIL!)
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To: Sacajaweau

What a freakin’ waste...Where is common sense? Has it just been completely abandoned?


5 posted on 09/30/2010 8:03:32 AM PDT by WAW (Which enumerated power?)
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To: Sacajaweau

Sounds like the sign makers and construction union to replace them have made their proper payment to government election campaigns.

Good to see them doing the proper thing for the king.


6 posted on 09/30/2010 8:03:44 AM PDT by edcoil (No "D's" for me!)
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To: Qbert

Are all of the graduates of NYC schools familiar with lower case letters?


7 posted on 09/30/2010 8:03:44 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If not for the double standard, liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: workerbee

...nope not racist...it will be illegals painting the signs


8 posted on 09/30/2010 8:04:24 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Qbert

which company is going to make the new signs? Always follow the money...


9 posted on 09/30/2010 8:04:47 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (Our President-A modest man, who has much to be modest about.)
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To: John Semmens

(( ping ))


10 posted on 09/30/2010 8:05:35 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Qbert

Wow, talk about a total waste of money and resources. There are some people in our Government that need a serious @ss kicking behind the woodshed.

We can’t afford garbage like this. Don’t these idiots know this? The bankrupcy of America is being done deliberately. Our nation is being taken over by economic ruin vs. a war. We must stop this... I just don’t know how we can beat some sense into our elected officials. They seem to be power drunk and spend happy.

The pressure cooker is way over pressure now. It won’t be long until it pops.


11 posted on 09/30/2010 8:05:35 AM PDT by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: Qbert

If they want them quickly recoginzed, they should put them on little blackberry screens.


13 posted on 09/30/2010 8:06:05 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Southack

“That’s not a “font” change, that’s a capitalization change.”

It’s both.


14 posted on 09/30/2010 8:06:10 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: Dick Vomer

Spot on!


15 posted on 09/30/2010 8:06:15 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
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To: Qbert

We did the same thing in Boone County MO. Not sure whose idea it was. They haven’t replaced them all.


16 posted on 09/30/2010 8:06:18 AM PDT by listenhillary (A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
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To: WAW

I HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR HOW TO STOP THIS.


17 posted on 09/30/2010 8:06:30 AM PDT by tired1 (Federalize the Fed)
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To: Qbert
Actually, I was half way expecting it to be something along this order......./s.........


18 posted on 09/30/2010 8:06:56 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Contrary to liberal belief, it's the United StateS of America, not the united STATE of america.)
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To: hellinahandcart; Yehuda; firebrand

you’re gonna love this.


19 posted on 09/30/2010 8:07:34 AM PDT by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: Qbert

I guess they had to find jobs for all of those Census workers.


20 posted on 09/30/2010 8:07:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Texas Rangers - AL West Champions)
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