Because one of the first lessons might be about how you shouldn't install a sign so that it blocks a traffic signal, as a concerned citizen complains, in this case about a new sign at the Fenway and Agassiz Road.
How stupid can people get? Installing a one-way sign in a way that partly blocks a signal light is about the most asinine thing I've heard of, to date! What the hell was the person who did that thinking?
Transportation infrastructure (even at this level) involves a certain amount of engineering, and putting a sign in a nonsensical position may make sense in a broader context, so it's not necessarily wrong to do your job even if it doesn't make sense. Workers need to apply a certain amount of discretion, but at the end of the day the installer was likely given a stupid order. I mean, even if he had the option of positioning the sign at a different point on the pole, there's not a lot of great options given how close the pole is to the traffic signal. They should have planned to put it somewhere else entirely.
My thoughts exactly. The flipside to this situation would be that the sign installers make a decision to override the work order because they think it's stupid, but then end up doing something dumber, because they're not actually engineers.
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Sheesh!!
How stupid can people get? Installing a one-way sign in a way that partly blocks a signal light is about the most asinine thing I've heard of, to date! What the hell was the person who did that thinking?
That it would be some sweet
That it would be some sweet overtime when they get called back to move it?
"My job to put the sign up..."
"They told me to put the sign on the pole. No one told me to look what's behind the sign. Traffic light ain't my job..."
Sadly, that seems to be the mentality of
the average laborer that actually installs signs.
Well I don't think that's necessarily the worst mindset.
Transportation infrastructure (even at this level) involves a certain amount of engineering, and putting a sign in a nonsensical position may make sense in a broader context, so it's not necessarily wrong to do your job even if it doesn't make sense. Workers need to apply a certain amount of discretion, but at the end of the day the installer was likely given a stupid order. I mean, even if he had the option of positioning the sign at a different point on the pole, there's not a lot of great options given how close the pole is to the traffic signal. They should have planned to put it somewhere else entirely.
My thoughts exactly. The
My thoughts exactly. The flipside to this situation would be that the sign installers make a decision to override the work order because they think it's stupid, but then end up doing something dumber, because they're not actually engineers.
Hey, figure it out. If it is
Hey, figure it out. If it is not red or yellow, what color will it be?
And if you're not sure, just
And if you're not sure, just hit the gas!!
Parallax
And if you're at a different angle it might be covering the red light, which would present a safety issue.
Union labor at its best
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Good luck with getting the
Good luck with getting the Boston complaint hotline to get the DCR to fix this.
Yes, it's installed wrong.
Yes, it's installed wrong.
No, it's not new. Looking at the street views in Google, it's been there since at least August 2014.
Same crew responsible for this
http://www.universalhub.com/2013/citizen-complaint-day-lands-sakes