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September 03, 2005
illiterate or blind?
Yesterday I was driving form Huntington to Grand Rapids. The road (Highway 5) is an old highway, so it winds through many little towns along the way. One of these towns is Ligoneer Indiana. A nice little town with a thing about signs. They have some road construction there. I know because they told me 14 times. Seriously, in the span of one mile, there were 14 big orange "Road Construction Ahead" signs. 14!!
I did a little math. That's one sign every 377 feet. Driving at 35 mph, that's one sign every 7.3 seconds. But they weren't evenly spaced, so some were in little sign-clusters, only 10 or 20 feet apart. I'm not sure what was going on here. Is the Ligoneer Sign-Man very safety conscious? perhaps he just doesn't want anyone of his fellow townsfolk to be caught unaware of the road work. Did the road crew get sued because they only had 10 warning signs once and some motorist was caught unawares? Is the road crew staffed by bored high-schoolers acting on a dare? I don't get it.
The construction was 7 or 8 miles after the signs too.
Posted by neal on September 3, 2005 12:27 AM