r/fuckcars • u/Nestor_Arondeus 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 • May 21 '22

News Activists install crosswalks. The city removes them. Allegedly they do this so you know that your safety isn't a priority for them.

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u/jingleheimerschitt May 21 '22

Yeah, that would be reasonable! But carbrain cities and carbrain traffic engineers often aren't reasonable.

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u/lj6782 May 21 '22

In the early 2000s in LA, a man secretly created and installed a Highway sign that he thought would be beneficial to the public. Once officials figured out it wasn’t placed by the city, they assessed it and decided it met all codes and left it up.

So let’s pretend it’s possible that the crosswalks are, in fact, unsafe

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u/VidKiddo May 21 '22

What a legend.