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My great grandma had a similar story, the bus stop was in front of my grandparent’s bedroom, they hated that people would gather in their bedroom window. she asked for the stop to be moved a few meters down the road, so it is between the houses and not in front of it. the municipality denied her.
Until that point the bus stop was nothing but a sign, she heard that they were going to remove it and install a proper bus stop with a bench and shade.
She asked the city build it a few meters down, still nothing.
the night before they began construction, my great grandma just moved the sign to where she wanted it. they built the bus stop where the sign was, and today, that bus stop is still where she wanted it to. Possibly until perpetuity
Possibility: They know it’s in the wrong spot. They don’t know why. So they figure someone screwed up, they don’t know who, but they don’t want it to be them or their department. So nobody says anything, and the stop remains unchanged.
Yeah screw the public, she deserves her view
How’s the public screwed in this?
We have no knowledge of why it was there in the first place, we’re only given one side of the story. Maybe this was closer to a crosswalk, or nextdoor was less safe. We don’t even know if the stop existed there before she moved in. We don’t know. All we know is old lady didn’t like view of people outside her window and decided that instead of dealing with it she had to change it herself.
you are free to give it the worst possible reading. it is a story I heard from family of events that happened maybe 70 years ago. the stakes couldn’t be lower. unless you figure which municipality and bus stop were talking about, then you can complain and have the bus stop reinstated in front of the bedroom I might inherit someday
I’m forced to give it the worst possible reading because we don’t have the other side. Personally, I read this as some HOA type who can’t be bothered to have a few people milling around while waiting for the bus.
For context I got a picture of the place in google maps. and discovered that said bus station is no longer there at all, but I have marked were the bedroom is, the original location (straight in front of their window. and the exchanged location, no one was inconvenienced by that change. and albeit it was a minor inconvenience for my great grandparents, the fix was trivial.
To me, that’s even less of a reason. They could still see in, she could still see them, I side with the city still. What was the point of moving it except wasting taxpayer money?
I’m forced to give it the worst possible reading
You’re literally not, in any way, forced to do that. That is a decision you have made.
High stakes indignation, the highest possible. People with real problems don’t get that high.
or maybe the city council couldn’t be bothered to move the sign a few meters to the left, and the fact that the construction still went through and nobody complained or pointed out any possible problems means that it was a non-issue
We have no knowledge of why it was there in the first place
So you admit you have no knowledge of this, yet assume it fucks the public to have it moved a few feet to the left?
you suck
Where funny?
No need to be funny. But it’s also not a meme. Not that most things here are.
Did you know you can just rent a line painting tool and buy a high vis vest and hard hat?
You can just get all the things you need to make a bike lane.
Nobody will question you.
Be the change.
Where meme?
Yeah, it’s just life advice. No memes here
But why post this in c/memes then? There are better fitting communities.
None of the “memes” I see these days in “meme” communities are memes and it’s honestly mildly annoying.
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.
Looking to bulk order “pedestrian zone” and “cycles only” signs some time soon 👀
I have on numerous occasions considered ordering bike route signage to place up on bike safe routes. The city has official signs for it but puts basically none up. If I could just order a lot more to put up it could encourage more folks to join.
I’m French, so we have the standard European signs, which should be easy enough to order 👀
You don’t have bike routes in France?
We do have them, but not enough of them 😈
Huh, that’s a bit surprising to me. I moved from a small non-highway connected town last year, and there was a pedestrian and bike path the entire 32 kilometre way from that town to the bigger nearby city.
Wonder how many bike that distance. Honestly must be a really nice path to bike in the summer.
I’d say the problem is more bad bike paths than no bike paths.
Nowhere near as bad as in the US, but many places still have bike paths that just suddenly end, painted bike «gutters» on busy streets…
Overall it’s pretty good, but quite inconsistent.
I wonder what problem the original sign addressed. Because forbidding turning right for 2 ½ hours every morning sounds extremely specific, and sounds like one neighbor in particular had some beef with another or something, and got the city to put up the sign.
And maybe that neighbor left, or whichever problem was being addressed didn’t exist anymore.
I know that’s a thing because a long time ago, we had a “15mph - blind children at play” sign in our street, until someone pointed out that the blind child in question was now an adult and had moved out years ago, and the sign was just annoying everybody for nothing 🙂
In other words, the guy might have replaced a useless sign with another, equally useless one on his own dime. Maybe he could simply have called the city to wonder what the sign was for, and possibly have it reviewed and removed altogether.
His sign wasn’t useless, the new one was about 20% less useless.
Hissjgn
Seriously, do people just hit “save” or “post” without even glancing at what they wrote?
Where maymay
That happened
