WayOT death markers

"redietz" wrote


Beyond being a good remembrance, it also can be a good alert that
certain sections of road are dangerous.


For sure ... after seeing them all on the section I mentioned, West to
Bozeman ... I may never take that route again

However since they are thick as trees in a rain forest along there, it seems
doubtful they increase driver care as they increase awareness of the danger
:-(

"Larry L" wrote in message
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"redietz" wrote


Beyond being a good remembrance, it also can be a good alert that
certain sections of road are dangerous.


For sure ... after seeing them all on the section I mentioned, West to
Bozeman ... I may never take that route again

However since they are thick as trees in a rain forest along there, it
seems doubtful they increase driver care as they increase awareness of the
danger :-(

Y'all might want to consult those obliquely mounted yellow square signs
posted at odd intervals along the road side.......um......well in some of
the more civic minded portions of the country, anyway.

Wolfgang

On Feb 1, 8:28 pm, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Y'all might want to consult those obliquely mounted yellow square signs
posted at odd intervals along the road side.......um......well in some of
the more civic minded portions of the country, anyway.


Having spent several summers back in my college days erecting those
signs, I can say two things about them:

1) Apparently much of the population believes they're only there for
target practice, and
2) They tend to get erected mainly at sites where people with
political influence complain about, not where they would make the most
sense in any rational world.

"redietz" wrote in message
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On Feb 1, 8:28 pm, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Y'all might want to consult those obliquely mounted yellow square signs
posted at odd intervals along the road side.......um......well in some of
the more civic minded portions of the country, anyway.


Having spent several summers back in my college days erecting those
signs, I can say two things about them:

1) Apparently much of the population believes they're only there for
target practice, and

Can't argue with that.

2) They tend to get erected mainly at sites where people with
political influence complain about, not where they would make the most
sense in any rational world.

Hyperbole? Or is it possible that college students hired to dig holes are
not selected because they are presumed to be gifted in the arena of traffic
management?

Wolfgang
who, as is well known here, has a great deal of respect for coincidence but
nevertheless feels a high degree of correspondence between warnings of
various traffic hazards and traffic hazards more or less conforming to the
warnings might have some small basis in sound judgment and deliberate
placement.