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Are people really praising this? I guess fuck the engineers who did a traffic study, and fuck the school children walking in that area from 7-7:30 I guess.
Just because a traffic engineer has qualifications doesn't necessarily guarantee they're not an asshole who is wrong and also sucks.
Did you just invent a school zone to make an argument? What would the hypothetical civil engineers have to say after running countless hours of simulations on imagined children?
We have no idea why the sign was the way it was. They gave us no background. So I'm biased against the sign changer until given a good argument as to why it was acceptable.
I'm biased because I've worked for the government.
Which government? Makes a big difference since some other better than others.
I'm not saying OOP definitely had no legitimate reason to change the sign, but without knowing, we can't assume they did either.
The fact they made no mention of it, leads me to suspect it was mostly for their personal convenience.
Also, government = inefficient is some neo-lib propaganda I can't tolerate. Any organisation can be inefficient (so, so, so many examples of this in the private sector), and governments can and must be set up to be well-run. The alternative is the privatised neo-lib hellscape we (countries in general) continue to not fix.
Uh... all I said was that I worked for the government. You're just making up your own little world over there, aren't you? This argument is moot since I can't anticipate everything you're gonna think up in imagination land. Kinda hard to argue against things no one said.
You're right, illegally changing a public sign on a public road in order to make your own commute marginally shorter is absolutely just totally cool, and you would know because you "work for the government".
It’s nice to see a few folks pushing back. This whole thing has the narrative of the ol’ incompetent state with its endless red tape and arbitrary nonsense!
Sometimes those things are true and it can be a pain, but it’s the same reason we don’t go out for vigilante justice. It wasn’t arbitrarily installed and no one noticed it because there’s no reason to check things like that.
absolutely… all the people praising this, like… those signs exist for traffic flow and safety… it’s so incredibly selfish to just say fuck everyone else, i need to turn right and even more selfish to avoid repercussions but making it “okay” for everyone else
maybe the sign was wrong, sure… but we don’t have that information… without more information, it’s an incredibly selfish act. dude has main character syndrome
Won’t someone please think of the children 😭
Or, hear me out, maybe the sign was just wrong. If they haven't catch up in almost a year that was probably the case.
Ok cool so I guess OP is a civil engineer with a Professional Engineer license then, and got a resolution from the city/town's governing board giving them permission to change it. And they publicly bid the project to certified contractors.
Oh wait no, none of that happened
How is life like being a lawful good little paladin? I break rules that don't apply to me. This guy seems to have broken rules that apply to no one.
You're the guy saying the victim should have complied with the cop that murdered him.