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It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, No It’s A Non-Unionized Traffic Vigilante! June 6, 2009

This article is just hilarious. No doubt the only reason that this highly effective traffic signage as a deterrent to speeding in a residential neighbourhood was dismantled is that 100 unionized man-hours weren’t billed to it’s erection:

Ottawa residents tired of drivers using an area street as a short cut have been benefitting from fake stop signs at a key intersection for nearly a year. In July, 2008, someone installed three stop signs identical to authentic City of Ottawa signs and painted the road with the standard white lines to match. The plan went off without a hitch until an alert crew of city workers noticed the signs were not set in concrete, the way official stop signs are. And so last week, the city took them down. A criminal investigation is underway; violators of the city’s signage bylaws face fines of $5,000 per infraction. But residents are keeping mum about who they think put up the signs. In the meantime, a city committee is studying the need for stop signs at the intersection, and with departmental approval, new –and legal– signs could be up in a matter of weeks.

Yes, let’s hunt down the “vigilante” and all of his law and order traffic nuisances. Next thing you know, residents will start erecting their own infrastructure, and then where would the sole-source contracts all go? What’s amazing is that these signs almost lasted a year until “alert” city workers noticed they weren’t set in concrete. Of course instead of setting them in concrete, they spent man hours taking the stop signs down. Now, with “official approval”, the union boys will be out in a matter of weeks erecting a proper sign to accomplish the same thing that the unofficial version did.

My goodness, how did civilization survive before CUPE came along?
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