Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Good. Downvote all you want.
If you let everyone design their local traffic flow it will be impossible to go anywhere. It’s worse than everyone deciding if they want low-income housing in their neighborhood.
The intersection was already a 2-way stop and, given the street topology and level of service, changing it to an all-way stop is benign.
The concern I have is that part of the charges include painting the crosswalk where one already exists. That’s not “design[ing] their local traffic flow,” but following up with expected public works. Granted he painted a ladder design rather than a standard continental pattern, but you should probably just shut the fuck up in the future.
Yeah, the crosswalk part was harmless, even if he technically wasn’t supposed to do the municipality’s job for them. The rest I’ll take your word for.
The charges include interfering with a traffic control device, grand theft, and vandalism exceeding $400
Actually reading the article, the first fits, but the rest is definitely the cops power tripping, lol.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
A car-brained, embarrassing comment.
The safety of children is more important than the speed you’re able to drive to Krispy Kreme Donuts. If the government doesn’t address it, the people will. You barking about traffic flow is irrelevant and I do not care.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
It goes both ways. We have engineers trained to do this shit for a whole bunch of reasons, and safety of pedestrians is like the main one.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
Yeah, people also don’t want high-speed rail going past their house or whatever.
Good luck with that. Most people like cars a lot more than I do.