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Overhead electronic signs with "obscure meanings, references to pop culture or those intended to be funny" will be phased out nationwide over the next couple of years because "they can be misunderstood or distracting to drivers." Signs should be "simple, direct, brief, legible and clear," and must only be used to "relay important information," including warning drivers of crashes ahead, inclement weather conditions or traffic delays.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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No one can have any fun or humor any more. If you are distracted by that little easy to read chuckle, you have WAY more problems driving a car that the sign and what it says. Again, the majority of people like these, but a tiny sliver of the population has a problem…so we all lose. No common sense anymore.
Trying to cure a problem that does not exist. Cell phone use is far more distracting and dangerous. And it happens all the time!
My favorite sign would be. Illinois is a Satan free state. He is afraid to step in here but he is taking notes. LOL
Authoritarian regimes don’t allow for humor.
And no thinking allowed!
My favorite is “Camp in the woods not in the left lane.”
I guess they never liked Burma Shave signs
Or Vitalis or Brylcreem….
This is a good thing. The signs should be restricted to communicate important messages, like “Protesters ahead, increase speed.”
How about “men working” on overstaffed highway projects? In addition to the irony would be the proliferation of reasons to protest.