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New federal regulations have forced Ridgewood’s Traffic and Signal Department to replace every street sign in the village.
I don’t have the time to count the number of street signs in the village and I don’t have a bead on how much they cost to produce. One thing I do know is that to change every street sign in a 5 square mile village because the Feds say you have to is moronic.
Rutishauser doubles down and gives the trip-n-fall lawyers fodder by saying we may be sued if the street names do not include lower case letters and an accident occurs.
We may not feel the effects of Obamacare for years, but I drive by street signs every day that will be thrown in the trash because the Feds said so.
Michael
New federal regulations have forced Ridgewood’s Traffic and Signal Department to replace every street sign in the village.
MICHAEL SEDON/THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
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Jim O’Connell, a 30-year employee with the Traffic and Signal Department, stands in the department’s shop. Street signs used to be labeled with the name of the road in all capital letters. The new regulations, however, require street names to be printed with a capital first letter and the rest of the name in lowercase. Under the new regulations, for example, MAPLE AVE. is now Maple Ave. on the street sign.
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