New York to spend $27.5million uncapitalizing street signs…

Right…  I see how this is such a disaster waiting to happen.  Someone from Kansas stops by, and doesn\’t understand \”4th AVENUE\” is \”4th Avenue\”.  Let\’s get this straight, instead of decomissioning these signs in a staged manner, a capital letter is so dangerous that we have to spend $27.5 million dollars today!
Is this the best time to invest this money when instead we can do a phased elimination of these signs?  Why is this so critical?  Due to a new Federal requirement.  Evidently, just now someone has realized that mixed case is easier to read from a distance.
Now, maybe I have missed something..  But the deadline to complete this is 2018, which is 8 years…  But the city has stated that they have a regular maintenance schedule, and that \”in eight years, we would have normally replaced them as part of normal activity. \”.  So, what is this $27.5 million dollars going to?  If the $27.5 million dollar activity will be done in 2018, then why are we not doing this with the normal maintenance cycle?
This is your government money at work….

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