{"id":4386,"date":"2010-10-04T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:48:00","slug":"new-york-to-spend-27-5million-uncapitalizing-street-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/new-york-to-spend-27-5million-uncapitalizing-street-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"New York to spend $27.5million uncapitalizing street signs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0I see how this is such a disaster waiting to happen. \u00c2\u00a0Someone from Kansas stops by, and doesn&#8217;t understand &#8220;4th AVENUE&#8221; is &#8220;4th Avenue&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0Let&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>Is this the best time to invest this money when instead we can do a phased elimination of these signs? \u00c2\u00a0Why is this so critical? \u00c2\u00a0Due to a new Federal requirement. \u00c2\u00a0Evidently, just now someone has realized that mixed case is easier to read from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, maybe I have missed something.. \u00c2\u00a0But the deadline to complete this is 2018, which is 8 years&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0But the city has stated that they have a regular maintenance schedule, and that &#8220;in eight years, we would have normally replaced them as part of normal activity. &#8220;. \u00c2\u00a0So, what is this $27.5 million dollars going to? \u00c2\u00a0If the $27.5 million dollar activity will be done in 2018, then why are we not doing this with the normal maintenance cycle?<\/p>\n<p>This is your government money at work&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0I see how this is such a disaster waiting to happen. \u00c2\u00a0Someone from Kansas stops by, and doesn&#8217;t understand &#8220;4th AVENUE&#8221; is &#8220;4th Avenue&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0Let&#8217;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 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/new-york-to-spend-27-5million-uncapitalizing-street-signs\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[27,32],"tags":[1837],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->