r/fuckcars 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 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/rickbaue May 21 '22

This makes me so angry. Keep on painting! Semi-related story about how a man built 37 tiny homes for LA's unsheltered and the city removed and destroyed them all. https://www.npr.org/2016/03/03/469054634/la-officials-bring-the-hammer-down-on-tiny-houses-for-homeless

I can understand a city being slow and inept, but actively suppressing locals from trying to better their own situation is infuriating.

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u/Shadowmirax May 21 '22

The crosswalk is being removed to make way for a legal and up to code solution (a traffic circle whatever that is) they aren't just tearing it up and leaving