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Citizen complaint of the day: Is there a school for traffic sign installers?

By adamg on Tue, 04/19/2016 - 11:13pm
One-way sign in the way in the Fenway

Because one of the first lessons might be about how you shouldn't install a sign so that it blocks a traffic signal, as a concerned citizen complains, in this case about a new sign at the Fenway and Agassiz Road.

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By mplo on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 5:57am.

How stupid can people get? Installing a one-way sign in a way that partly blocks a signal light is about the most asinine thing I've heard of, to date! What the hell was the person who did that thinking?

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By Julia on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 8:00am.

That it would be some sweet overtime when they get called back to move it?

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By octr202 on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 9:01am.

"They told me to put the sign on the pole. No one told me to look what's behind the sign. Traffic light ain't my job..."

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By roadman on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 9:07am.

the average laborer that actually installs signs.

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By anon on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 3:32pm.

Transportation infrastructure (even at this level) involves a certain amount of engineering, and putting a sign in a nonsensical position may make sense in a broader context, so it's not necessarily wrong to do your job even if it doesn't make sense. Workers need to apply a certain amount of discretion, but at the end of the day the installer was likely given a stupid order. I mean, even if he had the option of positioning the sign at a different point on the pole, there's not a lot of great options given how close the pole is to the traffic signal. They should have planned to put it somewhere else entirely.

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By anon on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 7:36am.

My thoughts exactly. The flipside to this situation would be that the sign installers make a decision to override the work order because they think it's stupid, but then end up doing something dumber, because they're not actually engineers.

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By anon on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 8:34am.

Hey, figure it out. If it is not red or yellow, what color will it be?

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By Scratchie on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 9:12am.

And if you're not sure, just hit the gas!!

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By anon on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 7:35am.

And if you're at a different angle it might be covering the red light, which would present a safety issue.

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By Boston_res on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 9:11am.

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By anon on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 11:22am.

Good luck with getting the Boston complaint hotline to get the DCR to fix this.

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By Rob on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 11:35am.

Yes, it's installed wrong.

No, it's not new. Looking at the street views in Google, it's been there since at least August 2014.

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By CB on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 1:44pm.

http://www.universalhub.com/2013/citizen-complaint-day-lands-sakes

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