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The latest from the state a California, in a budget mess and chronically budget-challenged, now wants to raise money by selling advertising space on highway message signs.
These signs, most of them just arrays of light bulbs, are currently used to display traffic alerts, and in some cases estimated travel times. Once every couple months these signs display an “Amber Alert” about some missing kid or whatever. Well, the problem is, way too many of the drivers on the road seem to think they have to slow down to read the sign, so traffic gets all screwed up as a result. Miraculously, traffic speeds up just past the sign.
Let’s face it, way too many of the people driving down our freeways are barely bright enough to manage to breathe and drive at the same time. Add in something they have to read and it’s all over, welcome to the roadway parking lot.
Come on California, don’t be stupid. Fix the budget, get rid of stupid spending, and if that’s not enough make the freeways into toll roads and let them pay for themselves or raise the gas tax, just ensure the revenue goes back into the roads not some stupid feed-the-homeless bullshit.