Red tape, red signs, red faces

May 1, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: Oak Lawn | by robnesvacil

Oak Lawn had a humorous safety campaign going encouraging people coming up to stop signs to actually stop at those signs.

Bureaucracy has gotten in the way and IDOT told Oak Lawn to take the funny signs down from the stop
sign posts.

Unfortunately, the local mayor sounds defeated and now says the town “had to junk” more than $1000 worth of funny, safety-minded signs.

Why not just move them? By all accounts they were pretty popular — why not work with local owners to place the quirky signs one or two properties in front of the stop signs?

(h/t CapFax’ Kevin Fanning)

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