City vows to organize street work better
The proliferation of orange cones has practically become as typical of this city as bagels and smoked meat, but now the city is promising to organize street work sites to be less intrusive to daily life.
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Kate
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CE 13:36 on 2022-12-10 Permalink
A couple weeks ago, I wasn’t paying attention while walking on a sidewalk and ran straight into one of those temporary street signs that had lost its weighted base and tipped over. Without the weight, it’s just a big piece of flat metal with sharp corners sticking up at a slight angle right at shin level. I messed up both shins and one knee pretty badly but was lucky to have nothing more serious than a limp for about a week. Had I run into it at another angle, I might have cut myself pretty badly. Since that happened, I notice one of these signs tipped over almost every day and usually put them back up now. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has been injured by one of these signs.
Kate 14:14 on 2022-12-10 Permalink
I’ve occasionally thought of tipping signs back up, but assumed they might be down on purpose because the directions were not currently valid. But if city workers are doing that, they certainly need to make sure they’re not turning the metal signs into dangerous traps for pedestrians.