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[–] 54 points 9 months ago (1 child)

"Road Works" usually means it doesn't.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The "End Construction" signs you sometimes see on the side of the road aren't actually protesting growth.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    For years, growing up, there were signs saying "adopt a view point" in the highway we'd drive out to see family over the holidays.

    For years, I thought they were saying something about road saftey, warning drivers to look at whats coming up instead of directly in front of them. Something akin to the picking a spot on the horizon to sail towards to keep the boat straight my dad had taught me for sailing...

    At some point i realized the blue signs were all guidance or info, not rules or warning. At one point I thought they might be politically motivated, like the "please dont litter" signs along that same highway- where they pleading with us to form and opinion, any opinion.

    I think I was in my late teens before I finally saw one that said "this viewpoint adopted by " and realized they were literally asking people to sponsor the scenic pull-off spots along the highway.

    I still prefer to read them as some poor civil servant waging a private campaign against nihilism, picking the nicest bits of scenery for his message, hoping to shock the american public out of their unfeeling malaise.

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