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    1 day ago

    Good. (Downvote me all you want)

    If you let everyone design their local traffic flow it will be impossible to go anywhere. That’s worse than everyone deciding if they want low-income housing or a safe injection site in their neighborhood.

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      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.

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        10 hours 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.

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        Yeah, people also don’t want high-speed rail tracks going past their house or whatever.

        If the government doesn’t address it, the people will.

        Good luck with that. Most people like cars a lot more than I do.

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      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.

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        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, unless he stole the equipment to do it.