Sign of the times
They work on freeways. Now city leaders are trying to bring traffic-condition signs to surface streets. The mayor unveiled five of them in South L.A. (among 20 citywide). The Times Jean Guccione reports:
The five new changeable message signs around Exposition Park should remind Robert Nubine to take a different route to work when USC’s football team is playing at the Coliseum. The signs, part of an $11-million area traffic relief project, are designed to alert motorists immediately to auto accidents, street detours and major events that might worsen their commutes. "It’s a foreshadowing kind of thing," said Nubine, 19, a supervisor at a nearby Starbucks. The signs will let him know to go another way or at least call his boss to say he’ll be late.
How about some warning signs a mile and half-mile away from freeway ramps, like "XXX Freeway 1 mile, East to Los Angeles, Right Lane" ditto, "West to Santa Monica, Left Lane". Sometimes you need some time to get in the proper lane; the last second is a poor and dangerous time.
Posted by: Dexter Peabody | March 09, 2007 at 08:56 PM